For all practical purposes, The National is an official publication of the SNP. If it says that Stewart McDonald had promised an independent Scotland a Navy larger than the Royal Navy, then that was what he said, and that was what he meant.
And of course that would be perfectly possible, at least in terms of manpower. There are 32,760 Regulars, 3870 people in the Maritime Reserve, and 7960 in the Royal Fleet Reserve. Scotland could easily find more than 44,590 Naval personnel. If it conscripted them. You have been warned.
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