An item referred to the magazine U.S.R. dated 8 April 1937 reporting that at the end of the same year 5 battleships were to be under reconstruction in England as part of a program for 9 battleships. The speed of realizing the increase was limited lacking shipbuilding capacity. With 143 ships and vessels for the British Royal Navy now under construction by naval and private shipyards was the amount of orders/work overwhelming.
