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Under what sort of circumstances could you get (c. 1940's) a fleet of rusting battleships that, if they were kept up nicely, would be an enormous fleet ranking second in the world, but which are just mouldering at their moorings?

Is there a timeline which sees a few N3/G3 monsters return from rare naval exercises into a Scapa Flow crowded with decrepit Nelsons and QE's which haven't left their moorings in decades? Perhaps one where USS Missouri anchors next to rust-covered South Dakotas and Lexingtons?

Any ideas for how such a situation could occur?
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