British Admiralty interested in smaller battleships in 1930

The United Kingdom asked at the London Conference to reduce the battleship strenghts of the participating countries although without disturbing the equilibrium agreed at the Washington Conference. The British Admiralty informed her cabinet that she favoured to limit the displacement to 25,000 in stead of 35,000 tons, 30.48cm/12” in stead of 40.64cm/16” and lengtening the age from 20 to years before replacement was allowed.However nothing of this was said in the Conference.(1)

Note

1. London Naval Treaty or Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armament signed on 22 April 1930 by the United Kingdom, USA, Japan, Italy and France with ratifications exchanged on 27 October 1930,to expired partially on 31 December 1936. Follow up of the Washington Naval Treaty signed on 6 February 1922.

Source

Brassey’s Naval and Shipping Annual 1931. London, England.