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Rear Admiral Bruce Austin Fraser has just been appointed Third Sea Lord (3SL). As such, it is his job to order and buy everything for the rapidly expanding RN.

He was at Gallipoli and dropped off troops on the western Egyptian border during the Great War. One of his later commands was HMS Glorious, the aircraft carrier.

IF Fraser had got it into his head that the navy needed mine sweepers, 230ft escort sloops, escort destroyers, escort aircraft carriers, fleet destroyers, fleet aircraft carriers and tank landing craft, could he have skewed production orders in this direction? How answerable to 1SL and political masters in his 'choice'?
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