quite a different sea mammal

[mailinutile2]

"Send an expeditionary force in France? Have you gone completely nuts?
Britain is a NAVAL power, by jingo!
Prepare immediately for operation walrus"
"Aye aye, sir"

We're in 1914, and the royal navy is attempting a landing somewhere in the baltic

[counterblitzkrieg]

Why is it called operation Walrus?

[corditeman]

Just a cotton-picking moment... !

Going to the Baltic means going through the Store Baelt between Funen and Zeeland - the Sound between Copenhagen and Sweden is rather shallow...

...Either way, it's Danish territorial waters and the Sound will be under Danish naval batteries. Oh, yes, and maybe shore-launched Brennan torpedoes?

You'd need the Danes to break their neutrality - maybe give them Schleswig-Holstein back - in which case you'd do better to attack Heligoland, the west end of the Kiel Canal and Hamburg.

[Typo]

The Belgian police arrests them

[mailinutile2]

Originally Posted by corditeman

Just a cotton-picking moment... !
You'd need the Danes to break their neutrality.

or the britons violating denmark neutrality!

[mailinutile2]

Originally Posted by counterblitzkrieg

Why is it called operation Walrus?

why not?
It could be churchill with mustaches

[mailinutile2]

Aye aye, sir! Walrus launched!

[corditeman]

Sadly, it's just another clam-eater...

Seriously, Britain dropped two major clangers over Germany in the late 1800s - not supporting the Danes in their war with Germany and handing Heligoland back to Germany. You've got a TL there, if you're interested - bottle up the High Seas Fleet in Bremen, Hamburg and the Baltic *evil laughter from the mighty Wazir* and give the Kaiser the wobblers over a Northern Front on the Dano-German border.

'Tomorrow Hamburg, next month - Berlin!'

Me, I just like the Danes - lovely capital city and Crown Jewels prettier than all but the Honour of Scotland.

[FlyingDutchman]

Originally Posted by corditeman

Just a cotton-picking moment... !

Going to the Baltic means going through the Store Baelt between Funen and Zeeland - the Sound between Copenhagen and Sweden is rather shallow...

AFAIK that was why Fisher's brainchildren, the HMS Glorious, Furious and Couragious were to be built as large light cruisers suitable for the Baltic.

Churchill went even further and had plans to make battleships run less deep by tying them inbetween caissons...


This plan would have been a disaster for the British, one of the reasons would be that the Germans would be quicker to reinforce their defenses there then the British could reinforce their own forces there.
The result would be that within a week or two the British would have lost a number of divisions.