Originally Posted by
ORAC
I doubt MoD will miss a presentational trick here in due course. With the Navy down to just 6 frigates and 6 destroyers (who would ever have thought), an eventual return to 19 escorts in total will presumably be described as "The biggest increase in the size of the Royal Navy in living memory." That said, it's likely that more T23s yet won't make it though another refit, so the numbers may well fall further still in the short term. But that only makes the eventual increase even bigger! Trebles all round! Better still, they will still be able to make such a claim even if they take the opportunity not to replace any early build T26s transferred to Norway. Happy days indeed.