Britain's Lion-Class Battleships Would Have Been Powerful Warships
In most configurations, the Lion-Class would have been somewhat smaller, somewhat slower, slightly better protected Iowas, more effective than the U.S. North Carolina and South Dakota classes. Lion likely would have had little trouble with the latest German or Italian battleships, in part because of the latter’s fiscal inability to compete with the Royal Navy, and the former’s
Source: nationalinterest.org
