I have just been reading Correlli Barnetts Engage the Enemy More Closely, In the chapter dealing with the pre war re-armanent period he mentions that there was a "New Fleet Plan" designed to give a fleet of the following strength
20 Battleships, 15 aircraft carriers, 100 cruisers, 198 destroyers and 82 submarines - this is not including convoy escort vessels, costal forces etc. He said this was not carried out due to Britains financial and industrail weakness.
However I have also read Niall Fergusson's War of the World in which he argues that Britain could have affored a much larger re-armanent drive and Britains industrial postion is not as weak as it seems.
Now my questions are this, can Britain undertake this plan, what effect on the war would a navy like this have and would we have different ship classes in place compared to OTL? 1935 being when this plan is adopted.