On 16May2018 1550, Richard Aiken wrote:

> So - had the British government been sneaky and foresighted enough -
> they could have ordered "tankers" which were actually unarmed (but
> armored) capital ships built to support the carraige of oil between
> Venezuela and the western U.S. The commerce would have at least
> defraying the operating costs . . . and the existence of several
> extra "not-quite-battewagons" might have given Hitler pause.

There is a world of difference between a tanker and a warship of the
same displacement. Warships are *much* more heavily built, and
*ridiculously* more compartmentalised.

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