The British naval shipbuilding program according to the Dutch newspaper Vlissingse Courant dated 9 December 1920

The British Admiralty to propose in 1921 a new naval shipbuilding program which however met large resistance in the cabinet. The admiralty referred to the building on a large scale by the United States and Japan of battleships and battle cruisers with as result that the British navy was no longer on the first but on the third place when it comes to major ships. Although the British press admitted that England needed to maintain her position wondered men if the building of large ships was the right course. A question not to be answered before everything was known about what went wrong during the battle of Jutland. (1) At that moment there were none battleships or battle cruisers being build for the Royal Navy and she possessed not a single post Jutland battleship. On the other hand built the United States in the next years at least 12 and Japan 16 of the post-Jutland types.

Note

1. This battle between the British Grand Fleet commanded by admiral Sir John Jellicoe and the German High Seas Fleet commanded by vice admiral Reinhard Scheer found place on 31 May and 1 June and in which 14 British and 11 German warships were destroyed. The Germans lost one pre-dreadnought and 1 battle cruisers against the British losses of 3 battle cruisers and 3 armoured cruisers. The British maintained in control of the North Sea but her losses of tonnage were 2 x the German and her losses of sailors around 2,5 x the German.