Due in part to the desire to curtail excess expenditures in light of the increasing cost of keeping up with German naval production and in part because he felt the type to be outdated, Fisher authorized few new cruisers and scrapped 70 older ones.
Debido en parte ao desexo de reducir o exceso de gastos polo aumento dos custos de manter o ritmo de produción naval alemá e tamén por sentir que ese tipo de barco era anticuado, Fisher autorizou poucos cruceiros novos e desguazou 70 vellos.