The treaty with Britain allowed the Amazonian Navy access to technical information that the Royal Navy was allowed to give to its allies. In most cases brand new information generated by the Royal Navy would be retained for twelve to eighteen months so that the Royal Navy always maintained an advantage. Where the Royal Navy noted that friends or enemies had the same information, the RN would ensure, that all of its allies, would also have that information. The Hippolyte class had the new model twin 12" fitted.
The Hippolyte Class were the first ocean going battleships built by Murovia. The previous classes had been coast defence vessels that were rated as battleships and cruisers, these ships were discarded at the end of WW1. The Hippolyte were interesting in that they had three twin turrets fitted while other nations were only having one turret fore and aft. The centre turret was only useful for broadside firing but this was not thought to be a problem as fleet actions usually ended up with the ships of each force running side by side, battering away at each other till one side or other withdrew.
