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Domestic News:
November 1918:
- The battleship Tzu I is placed in mothballs and the battleships Tung Hai and Yueh Fei of the new Tung Hai class are laid down at the Krupp-Allington Werke in Germany.
- The light cruiser Fei Yun, eighth and final ship of the Fei Yun class and second to bear the class name, commissions.
January 1919:
- Upon review of the fleet, the Navy decides its current ASW forces are inadequate and lays down 12 new minesweepers of the existing type.
- The Navy contributes ¥3.84M to the construction of a new gun foundry and the purchase of a license for the production of a high-quality French 12" gun model.
April 1919:
- Domestic shipyards unveil new privately-funded 40 kiloton slipways and drydocks.
- The Navy contributes ¥3.85M to the acquisition of a license to produce a new-model American torpedo with greater range than existing designs.
June 1919:
- The five Fei Yun class light cruisers are sent to the United States to be fitted with improved fire control directors.
- The Navy contributes ¥3.45M to the acquisition of a license for a high-quality French 5" gun model.
August 1919:
- The Navy's new minesweepers commission and the Fei Yun-class cruisers complete their refits.
September 1919:
- The recently-independent state of Kenya suffers from severe political upheavals, and a Chinese force is dispatched to restore order. Unfortunately, a force dispatched by the Russian Empire arrives first and installs a puppet government before the Chinese forces can intervene to ... protect Kenyan independence and civil liberties from predatory European imperialism.
October 1919:
- Krupp-Allington Werke finds itself short on orders, and sends a representative to see if the Imperial Chinese Navy would be interested in a third Tung Hai-class battleship, to be built at a discount. The Navy is in fact interested, and the ship is laid down as Cheng Kung.
- Over the protests of the Minister of the Navy, who has just approved the order for a third new battleship, the Grand Council decides to cut the naval budget in favor of social programs.
November 1919:
- Between the budget cuts and the third battleship, the Navy finds itself losing money at an alarming rate - the reserve fund will be depleted in under three months at the current rate of expenditure. To counter this, the Navy mothballs the battleships Chen Yuen, Tian Dan, and Pan Chao and the armored cruisers Ning Hai and Nan Chen, and suspends all current training programs indefinitely, but even so it is feared that the Navy has funds for just seven months.
December 1919:
- The Grand Council proposes that the Navy sendseveral of the Councillors' sons the naval cadets on a world cruise, as they feel that it would be a good experience for their boys the future officers of the fleet. In exchange for additional funding Because the Navy agrees with the Council, the Councillors' sons cadets embark on Chao Yung and depart for a several-month tour of the Mediterranean, Europe, and the Caribbean, and will pass through the Panama Canal and stop at the US naval base at Pearl Harbor on the voyage home.
February 1920:
- Naval architects and ship designers of the Imperial Chinese Navy instruct their Russian counterparts in the design and placement of secondary turrets on modern battleships. The Navy is able to leverage China's vast experience building domestic battleships (all zero of them thus far) totake the Russian Empire for demand ¥3.95M for this information.
March 1920:
- Japan offers to sell Chinese industries technical information on reliable power training and elevation gear, and after lengthy negotiations the Imperial Chinese Navy agrees to pay ¥4.6M towards this project.
May 1920:
- British armaments manufacturers offer the Imperial Chinese Naval Arsenals a production license for a high-quality 8" gun model. The Navy accepts their offer, and suspends work on the battleships Tung Hai and Cheng Kung to restore the badly-depleted reserve fund to a healthier condition.
June 1920:
- US shipbuilders express interest in Chinese triple bottomed hulls, and the Navy approves the sale of technical information for ¥3.7M.
- Work on the battleship Tung Hai resumes.
July 1920:
- The Dowager Empress hosts an international sailing regatta and naval gathering, paid for out of the Imperial Chinese Navy's funds.
August 1920:
- The Minister of the Navy, bedeviled by financial difficulties related to the Navy's battleship construction program, makes dismissive comments regarding the quality of a Russian cruiser and its crew, which had attended the Dowager Empress's regatta last month. The next day, his comments appear in the headlines of many major newspapers, but the Russian government makes only a pro forma protest and things quickly return to business as usual.
September 1920:
- Negotiations with France result in an extension of the Franco-Chinese alliance.
- Court officials press for naval budget cuts to fund construction of a new palace but are stymied when the Navy League raises a storm of protest. An investigation into how the Navy League became aware of the plans for the new palace reveals that the chief of the Navy League received an anonymous tip from someone who very definitely wasn't the Minister of the Navy, who was busy holdingan unscheduled a routine lunch meeting with his staff on the veranda of a public diner frequented by many members of the Navy League to loudly and publicly quietly and discretely discuss the proposed budget cuts and palace plans at the time of the supposed leak.
October 1920:
- The Navy purchases technical information regarding an improved armor-piercing shell from the United States for ¥4.45M.
November 1920:
- Counterintelligence believes that agents in the employ of Great Britain have stolen information on Chinese explosive shells, and the press catches wind of the story and makes it a public scandal. The Grand Council sends a strongly-worded note of protest, which the British Parliament receives with some bemusement as it primarily consisted of instructions on the proper channels to use to request the purchase of Chinese technical information.
February 1921:
- Technical information regarding the manufacture of a new type of boiler with so-called water walls is purchased from the United States, costing the Navy ¥4.3M.
March 1921:
- With the impending completion of the Tung Hai-class battleships Yueh Fei and Tung Hai, the Imperial Chinese Navy scraps the battleships Tzu I, Pan Chao, and Chen Yuen.
April 1921:
- Yueh Fei completes, and Krupp-Allington Werke offers to build a fourth Tung Hai-class battleship, again at a discount. The offer is accepted, and Ting Yuen is laid down.
- The Minister of the Navy is bemused as naval engineers and architects report that they have once again divined valuable insights into light forces and torpedo warfare doctrine from inspection of a ship which is neither light nor armed with torpedoes.
June 1921:
- Tung Hai completes, and work on Cheng Kung resumes.
July 1921:
- Ships of the Guangdong Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy fire on and sink a French fishing boat operating out of Indochina. Several fishermen are killed, but the admiral commanding the fleet adamantly insists that the fishing boat had violated restricted waters and that the incident was due entirely to the carelessness of the fishermen.
August 1921:
- At an official dinner at the Russian Embassy, the Minister of the Navy jovially accuses the Russian Empire of meddling in the Balkans and provoking the recent round of fighting. The next day, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich, commanding general of the Russian peacekeeping forces in Serbia, makes a public speech in front of the capital building in Belgrade denying any Russian meddling in the Balkans while Russian troops police the crowds and scatter anti-Russian protestors. The proper motions having been made, everything returns to business as usual.
September 1921:
- The Navy acquires technical information regarding the placement and organization of fire control directors for capital ship secondary batteries and cruiser main batteries from the German government for ¥4.3M.
October-December 1921:
- Sales of technical information to the US and France net nearly ¥8M for the Navy.
January 1922:
- A war scare involving France and Russia brings the Chinese and Russian Empires to the brink of war after the Minister of the Navy publicly voices strong support for backing our longstanding ally France unconditionally. The Navy institutes training programs in gunnery and night fighting for the first time in over two years, and hawkish members of the Grand Council push through an increase in naval funding.
March 1922:
- Relations with Russia normalize, and the Navy sends the second class protected cruisers Fu Hsing and Heng Hai, the scout cruiser Chen Pien, and the surviving Kuang Heng-class destroyers to the United States for improved fire control systems. The armored cruiser Ning Hai is reactivated into the Reserve Fleet to keep the strength of the Guangdong and Fujian Fleets at an acceptable level while the second class cruisers are refitting.
May 1922:
- After lengthy negotiations, the French government agrees to train Chinese naval architects in the design of more efficient hull forms for ¥3.65M.
- The cruiser and destroyer refits begun in March complete.
June 1922:
- Ning Hai is returned to mothballs.
- Tian Dan, China's sole treaty battleship, is sold to the breakers as it is now considered surplus to requirements.
- The Grand Council, satisfied that the war scare is over, reduces the naval budget, and work on Ting Yuen is temporarily suspended.
July 1922:
- It is noticed that some of the minesweepers will become worn out within a year or so, and as such the Navy orders all 40 brought in for a refit. The minesweeper Ting Yuan No. 1 is somehow misplaced in the unaccustomedly busy naval yards, and as a result work on her overhaul is delayed.
September 1922:
- The Marine Nationale expresses interest in acquiring technical information regarding director fire control of secondary armaments, and the Imperial Chinese Navy is more than willing to enlighten them for a mere ¥3.55M.
October 1922:
- Work on Ting Yuan resumes after a naval arms limitation conference at the Hague ends inconclusively.
November 1922:
- In light of the failure of the armaments limitation conference and in view of the ongoing moderate tensions with Russia, hawkish members of the Grand Council push through an increase in naval funding.
- The battlecruisers Kai Chi and Chao Yung are sent to Great Britain to receive improved fire control directors.
- Warships of the Guangdong Fleet sink another French fishing boat operating out of Indochina. This time, the Minister of the Navy orders the admiral commanding the fleet to make a public apology to the French ambassador and offers full compensation to the French government and the families affected by the incident, as he does not want to risk the French alliance over some ridiculous fishery dispute.
January 1923:
- Chinese naval architects and engineers train their American counterparts in the art of the design and placement of secondary turrets on modern battleships; their vast experience in this field (still zero domestically-built Chinese battleship designs) enables the Navy to demand ¥3.45M for this service.
February 1923:
- The battleship Cheng Kung completes, the battlecruisers Kai Chi and Chao Yung return from Great Britain, and the battleship Kwang-Chou-Wan is sent to the United States for a year-long reconstruction to improve its speed to 24 knots for increased compatibility with the modern battle line.
March 1923:
- The Lei Li-class destroyer leaders and the Kuang Yuan-class destroyers are sent to their builders' yards for improved fire control systems. Both classes lose a torpedo tube to offset the added weight of the new fire control directors.
July 1923:
- With the refits of the modern destroyers and destroyer leaders completed, the armored cruiser Nan Jui is next on the list, and is given improved directors, increased ammunition stowage for the main battery, and an enlarged secondary battery.
August 1923:
- The alliance with France expires, and the French government is uninterested in an extension.
December 1923:
- The battleship Ting Yuan, fourth and final member of the Tung Hai class, commissions.
January 1923:
- The Tung Hai-class battleships are sent to Japan to be fitted with improved fire control directors and better secondary turret equipment.
April 1923:
- The Tung Hai-class battleships return from Japan and Kwang-Chou-Wan returns from the United States having completed their reconstructions.
May 1923:
- A rebellion breaks out in the British possession of Zanzibar. The Grand Council, concerned by rumors of a treaty between Great Britain and Russia and the resultant tensions with Great Britain, offers assistance rooting out the rebels.
Foreign News:
1918:
- In December, a rebellion breaks out in the British possession of Kenya. Great Britain fails to suppress the rebellion, and Kenya becomes independent in February 1919.
1919:
- Britain commissions two new battleships and orders a second Illustrious-class battleship from German yards in March (the first had been ordered October 1917). The next month, it lays down the first of a new class of battlecruisers in British yards.
- Japan commissions the Hiei-class battlecruiser Kurama and the Hatsuse-class battleship Iki, and lays down a new Hatsuse-class battleship.
- Germany commissions the battlecruiser Seydlitz and the United States commissions the battleship Delaware.
1920:
- The United States commissions three modern battleships and a battlecruiser, and lays down three additional battlecruisers, two of which are to be built to a new design.
- Germany and Russia commission a battleship and a battlecruiser each while France commissions a pair of battlecruisers and Great Britain commissions a battleship.
- Japan lays down a battlecruiser of a new Tsukuba class while Russia lays down a battlecruiser of a new Rymnik class.
- Britain commissions the battleship Illustrious, and our naval attache attending the commissioning ceremony informs us that it carries ten 14" guns in twin turrets superfiring over triple turrets.
1921:
- Perhaps in response to the new French battlecruisers, Great Britain lays down two additional battlecruisers of the Queen Mary class.
- Germany lays down another battleship, and the US lays down a battleship and a battlecruiser.
- Britain commissions the battlecruisers Glorious and Queen Mary, and the Illustrious-class battleship Benbow. The United States commissions the battleship Illinois and Japan commissions the Hatsuse-class battleship Katori while Germany commissions the battlecruiser Graf Spee.
1922:
- The Japanese Prime Minister, reputedly inspired by our dreadnought program, authorizes increased naval funding for the Imperial Japanese Navy and Japan begins work on another Hatsuse-class battleship. We consider introducing the Japanese ambassador and naval attache to representatives of the shipyards with which we do business.
1923:
- Great Britain lays down three new capital ships of three different designs - the 40,000-ton battlecruiser Ramillies, the 28,000-ton battleship Majestic, and the 36,000-ton battleship Royal Oak.
- Japan becomes the first power to lay down an armored cruiser since China ordered Nan Jui in 1912, and in fact orders three cruisers of the Iwate class. Germany follows suit with two armored cruisers of its own, though of two different classes (Victoria Louise and Hertha).
- The other powers lay down a few battleships and battlecruisers, and the USA commissions the battlecruisers Yorktown, Essex, and Intrepid, the first three of the Yorktown class.
1924:
- Japan lays down a fourth Iwate-class armored cruiser and Germany lays down a second and third Hertha-class armored cruiser. Russia joins the armored cruiser race with Gromoboi.
- Russia and Great Britain sign a pact purportedly meant to defend against Chinese 'aggression.'
- Great Britain and the United States disdain the armored cruiser race and each lay down a battlecruiser, the US a fifth Yorktown and Great Britain a third Ramillies.
November 1918:
- The battleship Tzu I is placed in mothballs and the battleships Tung Hai and Yueh Fei of the new Tung Hai class are laid down at the Krupp-Allington Werke in Germany.
- The light cruiser Fei Yun, eighth and final ship of the Fei Yun class and second to bear the class name, commissions.
January 1919:
- Upon review of the fleet, the Navy decides its current ASW forces are inadequate and lays down 12 new minesweepers of the existing type.
- The Navy contributes ¥3.84M to the construction of a new gun foundry and the purchase of a license for the production of a high-quality French 12" gun model.
April 1919:
- Domestic shipyards unveil new privately-funded 40 kiloton slipways and drydocks.
- The Navy contributes ¥3.85M to the acquisition of a license to produce a new-model American torpedo with greater range than existing designs.
June 1919:
- The five Fei Yun class light cruisers are sent to the United States to be fitted with improved fire control directors.
- The Navy contributes ¥3.45M to the acquisition of a license for a high-quality French 5" gun model.
August 1919:
- The Navy's new minesweepers commission and the Fei Yun-class cruisers complete their refits.
September 1919:
- The recently-independent state of Kenya suffers from severe political upheavals, and a Chinese force is dispatched to restore order. Unfortunately, a force dispatched by the Russian Empire arrives first and installs a puppet government before the Chinese forces can intervene to ... protect Kenyan independence and civil liberties from predatory European imperialism.
October 1919:
- Krupp-Allington Werke finds itself short on orders, and sends a representative to see if the Imperial Chinese Navy would be interested in a third Tung Hai-class battleship, to be built at a discount. The Navy is in fact interested, and the ship is laid down as Cheng Kung.
- Over the protests of the Minister of the Navy, who has just approved the order for a third new battleship, the Grand Council decides to cut the naval budget in favor of social programs.
November 1919:
- Between the budget cuts and the third battleship, the Navy finds itself losing money at an alarming rate - the reserve fund will be depleted in under three months at the current rate of expenditure. To counter this, the Navy mothballs the battleships Chen Yuen, Tian Dan, and Pan Chao and the armored cruisers Ning Hai and Nan Chen, and suspends all current training programs indefinitely, but even so it is feared that the Navy has funds for just seven months.
December 1919:
- The Grand Council proposes that the Navy send
February 1920:
- Naval architects and ship designers of the Imperial Chinese Navy instruct their Russian counterparts in the design and placement of secondary turrets on modern battleships. The Navy is able to leverage China's vast experience building domestic battleships (all zero of them thus far) to
March 1920:
- Japan offers to sell Chinese industries technical information on reliable power training and elevation gear, and after lengthy negotiations the Imperial Chinese Navy agrees to pay ¥4.6M towards this project.
May 1920:
- British armaments manufacturers offer the Imperial Chinese Naval Arsenals a production license for a high-quality 8" gun model. The Navy accepts their offer, and suspends work on the battleships Tung Hai and Cheng Kung to restore the badly-depleted reserve fund to a healthier condition.
June 1920:
- US shipbuilders express interest in Chinese triple bottomed hulls, and the Navy approves the sale of technical information for ¥3.7M.
- Work on the battleship Tung Hai resumes.
July 1920:
- The Dowager Empress hosts an international sailing regatta and naval gathering, paid for out of the Imperial Chinese Navy's funds.
August 1920:
- The Minister of the Navy, bedeviled by financial difficulties related to the Navy's battleship construction program, makes dismissive comments regarding the quality of a Russian cruiser and its crew, which had attended the Dowager Empress's regatta last month. The next day, his comments appear in the headlines of many major newspapers, but the Russian government makes only a pro forma protest and things quickly return to business as usual.
September 1920:
- Negotiations with France result in an extension of the Franco-Chinese alliance.
- Court officials press for naval budget cuts to fund construction of a new palace but are stymied when the Navy League raises a storm of protest. An investigation into how the Navy League became aware of the plans for the new palace reveals that the chief of the Navy League received an anonymous tip from someone who very definitely wasn't the Minister of the Navy, who was busy holding
October 1920:
- The Navy purchases technical information regarding an improved armor-piercing shell from the United States for ¥4.45M.
November 1920:
- Counterintelligence believes that agents in the employ of Great Britain have stolen information on Chinese explosive shells, and the press catches wind of the story and makes it a public scandal. The Grand Council sends a strongly-worded note of protest, which the British Parliament receives with some bemusement as it primarily consisted of instructions on the proper channels to use to request the purchase of Chinese technical information.
February 1921:
- Technical information regarding the manufacture of a new type of boiler with so-called water walls is purchased from the United States, costing the Navy ¥4.3M.
March 1921:
- With the impending completion of the Tung Hai-class battleships Yueh Fei and Tung Hai, the Imperial Chinese Navy scraps the battleships Tzu I, Pan Chao, and Chen Yuen.
April 1921:
- Yueh Fei completes, and Krupp-Allington Werke offers to build a fourth Tung Hai-class battleship, again at a discount. The offer is accepted, and Ting Yuen is laid down.
- The Minister of the Navy is bemused as naval engineers and architects report that they have once again divined valuable insights into light forces and torpedo warfare doctrine from inspection of a ship which is neither light nor armed with torpedoes.
June 1921:
- Tung Hai completes, and work on Cheng Kung resumes.
July 1921:
- Ships of the Guangdong Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy fire on and sink a French fishing boat operating out of Indochina. Several fishermen are killed, but the admiral commanding the fleet adamantly insists that the fishing boat had violated restricted waters and that the incident was due entirely to the carelessness of the fishermen.
August 1921:
- At an official dinner at the Russian Embassy, the Minister of the Navy jovially accuses the Russian Empire of meddling in the Balkans and provoking the recent round of fighting. The next day, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich, commanding general of the Russian peacekeeping forces in Serbia, makes a public speech in front of the capital building in Belgrade denying any Russian meddling in the Balkans while Russian troops police the crowds and scatter anti-Russian protestors. The proper motions having been made, everything returns to business as usual.
September 1921:
- The Navy acquires technical information regarding the placement and organization of fire control directors for capital ship secondary batteries and cruiser main batteries from the German government for ¥4.3M.
October-December 1921:
- Sales of technical information to the US and France net nearly ¥8M for the Navy.
January 1922:
- A war scare involving France and Russia brings the Chinese and Russian Empires to the brink of war after the Minister of the Navy publicly voices strong support for backing our longstanding ally France unconditionally. The Navy institutes training programs in gunnery and night fighting for the first time in over two years, and hawkish members of the Grand Council push through an increase in naval funding.
March 1922:
- Relations with Russia normalize, and the Navy sends the second class protected cruisers Fu Hsing and Heng Hai, the scout cruiser Chen Pien, and the surviving Kuang Heng-class destroyers to the United States for improved fire control systems. The armored cruiser Ning Hai is reactivated into the Reserve Fleet to keep the strength of the Guangdong and Fujian Fleets at an acceptable level while the second class cruisers are refitting.
May 1922:
- After lengthy negotiations, the French government agrees to train Chinese naval architects in the design of more efficient hull forms for ¥3.65M.
- The cruiser and destroyer refits begun in March complete.
June 1922:
- Ning Hai is returned to mothballs.
- Tian Dan, China's sole treaty battleship, is sold to the breakers as it is now considered surplus to requirements.
- The Grand Council, satisfied that the war scare is over, reduces the naval budget, and work on Ting Yuen is temporarily suspended.
July 1922:
- It is noticed that some of the minesweepers will become worn out within a year or so, and as such the Navy orders all 40 brought in for a refit. The minesweeper Ting Yuan No. 1 is somehow misplaced in the unaccustomedly busy naval yards, and as a result work on her overhaul is delayed.
September 1922:
- The Marine Nationale expresses interest in acquiring technical information regarding director fire control of secondary armaments, and the Imperial Chinese Navy is more than willing to enlighten them for a mere ¥3.55M.
October 1922:
- Work on Ting Yuan resumes after a naval arms limitation conference at the Hague ends inconclusively.
November 1922:
- In light of the failure of the armaments limitation conference and in view of the ongoing moderate tensions with Russia, hawkish members of the Grand Council push through an increase in naval funding.
- The battlecruisers Kai Chi and Chao Yung are sent to Great Britain to receive improved fire control directors.
- Warships of the Guangdong Fleet sink another French fishing boat operating out of Indochina. This time, the Minister of the Navy orders the admiral commanding the fleet to make a public apology to the French ambassador and offers full compensation to the French government and the families affected by the incident, as he does not want to risk the French alliance over some ridiculous fishery dispute.
January 1923:
- Chinese naval architects and engineers train their American counterparts in the art of the design and placement of secondary turrets on modern battleships; their vast experience in this field (still zero domestically-built Chinese battleship designs) enables the Navy to demand ¥3.45M for this service.
February 1923:
- The battleship Cheng Kung completes, the battlecruisers Kai Chi and Chao Yung return from Great Britain, and the battleship Kwang-Chou-Wan is sent to the United States for a year-long reconstruction to improve its speed to 24 knots for increased compatibility with the modern battle line.
March 1923:
- The Lei Li-class destroyer leaders and the Kuang Yuan-class destroyers are sent to their builders' yards for improved fire control systems. Both classes lose a torpedo tube to offset the added weight of the new fire control directors.
July 1923:
- With the refits of the modern destroyers and destroyer leaders completed, the armored cruiser Nan Jui is next on the list, and is given improved directors, increased ammunition stowage for the main battery, and an enlarged secondary battery.
August 1923:
- The alliance with France expires, and the French government is uninterested in an extension.
December 1923:
- The battleship Ting Yuan, fourth and final member of the Tung Hai class, commissions.
January 1923:
- The Tung Hai-class battleships are sent to Japan to be fitted with improved fire control directors and better secondary turret equipment.
April 1923:
- The Tung Hai-class battleships return from Japan and Kwang-Chou-Wan returns from the United States having completed their reconstructions.
May 1923:
- A rebellion breaks out in the British possession of Zanzibar. The Grand Council, concerned by rumors of a treaty between Great Britain and Russia and the resultant tensions with Great Britain, offers assistance rooting out the rebels.
Foreign News:
1918:
- In December, a rebellion breaks out in the British possession of Kenya. Great Britain fails to suppress the rebellion, and Kenya becomes independent in February 1919.
1919:
- Britain commissions two new battleships and orders a second Illustrious-class battleship from German yards in March (the first had been ordered October 1917). The next month, it lays down the first of a new class of battlecruisers in British yards.
- Japan commissions the Hiei-class battlecruiser Kurama and the Hatsuse-class battleship Iki, and lays down a new Hatsuse-class battleship.
- Germany commissions the battlecruiser Seydlitz and the United States commissions the battleship Delaware.
1920:
- The United States commissions three modern battleships and a battlecruiser, and lays down three additional battlecruisers, two of which are to be built to a new design.
- Germany and Russia commission a battleship and a battlecruiser each while France commissions a pair of battlecruisers and Great Britain commissions a battleship.
- Japan lays down a battlecruiser of a new Tsukuba class while Russia lays down a battlecruiser of a new Rymnik class.
- Britain commissions the battleship Illustrious, and our naval attache attending the commissioning ceremony informs us that it carries ten 14" guns in twin turrets superfiring over triple turrets.
1921:
- Perhaps in response to the new French battlecruisers, Great Britain lays down two additional battlecruisers of the Queen Mary class.
- Germany lays down another battleship, and the US lays down a battleship and a battlecruiser.
- Britain commissions the battlecruisers Glorious and Queen Mary, and the Illustrious-class battleship Benbow. The United States commissions the battleship Illinois and Japan commissions the Hatsuse-class battleship Katori while Germany commissions the battlecruiser Graf Spee.
1922:
- The Japanese Prime Minister, reputedly inspired by our dreadnought program, authorizes increased naval funding for the Imperial Japanese Navy and Japan begins work on another Hatsuse-class battleship. We consider introducing the Japanese ambassador and naval attache to representatives of the shipyards with which we do business.
1923:
- Great Britain lays down three new capital ships of three different designs - the 40,000-ton battlecruiser Ramillies, the 28,000-ton battleship Majestic, and the 36,000-ton battleship Royal Oak.
- Japan becomes the first power to lay down an armored cruiser since China ordered Nan Jui in 1912, and in fact orders three cruisers of the Iwate class. Germany follows suit with two armored cruisers of its own, though of two different classes (Victoria Louise and Hertha).
- The other powers lay down a few battleships and battlecruisers, and the USA commissions the battlecruisers Yorktown, Essex, and Intrepid, the first three of the Yorktown class.
1924:
- Japan lays down a fourth Iwate-class armored cruiser and Germany lays down a second and third Hertha-class armored cruiser. Russia joins the armored cruiser race with Gromoboi.
- Russia and Great Britain sign a pact purportedly meant to defend against Chinese 'aggression.'
- Great Britain and the United States disdain the armored cruiser race and each lay down a battlecruiser, the US a fifth Yorktown and Great Britain a third Ramillies.