(Secret.)
I was much interested in D.C.N.S.’s remark about the possibility of making a new battleship with the four spare 15-inch-gun turrets. Such a vessel would be of the battleship-cruiser type, heavily armoured and absolutely proof against air attack. Pray let me have a legend, with estimates in money and time. This ship could come in after the K.G.V. batch are finished and before Temeraire and Lion.
Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm