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In OTL the four Admiral class battlecruisers were all laid down in 1916 but all work was suspended on three of them less than six months later to concentrate resources on escorts and merchantmen which had a higher priority during wartime. Work on HMS Hood was continued as insurance against Germany managing to complete any of it's Mackensen class battlecruisers and Admiral Beatty pressed for work on the other three to be restarted, however the war cabinet refused on the grounds that resources weren't available.

Is there any way that one or more the the other three could have been completed or was the cabinet correct in their assessment?
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