The proposed competition would take one of the capital-ship designs sacrificed under the Washington Naval Treaty and give it a plausible alternate history. Entrants would explain why one ship, and perhaps its sisters, survived the treaty system. They would then trace the class into Second World War service and describe the actions it fought. Any answer would have to connect treaty policy and fleet limitation with ship design and wartime employment.
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A treaty-survival scenario links ship design to interwar policy
An alternate-history exercise asks how a Washington Treaty-era capital ship and its siblings might survive limitation and serve in the Second World War.