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Great chapter, and story. Followed. The Anglo-Danish-Norwegian army may be intact, but with their baggage train lost, they aren't a fighting force anymore. They likely haven't got the ammunition to fight again, so they need to get to resupply immediately. Even cavalry raids could be horribly...

Great chapter. So they need to find some quiet cove, strip Nurnberg, and scuttle her.

You certainly described the cry of peacocks well. They sound disturbingly like someone screaming "Help". The only critter that I've heard that was worse was a mountain lion screaming.

Melting/working. Remember that copper is found in the native form, and probably was a lot more often then. So, nothing really is needed to be done special. Smelt it, scoop off the impurities.

Well, that can be done (You know, AFTER the warships leave the area), but not with American warships.

I think that it would be a better look for the Japanese ship to provide aid to the burning city. The USN is under no obligation to protect Canadian territory in a war they aren't in

Presuming those islands are still German. They were moved in on quite quickly historically

No reason you couldn't, but you need a quiet place to do that. Nurnberg cannot steam far, and as far as the Germans know, there's still an angry submarine around somewhere. They don't know that her torpedoes are gone, her batteries must be flat, and her diesels are shot. To answer: Yes. Longer...

Maybe. That might raise the ire of the US against the Brits. There are a lot of Irish in the US, probably more so in this timeline. My ancestors left Ireland right after the 1916 rising, because they were convinced that, especially in wartime, that the British would be responding to Ireland with...

Oh, I certainly agree, I think she's doomed, but as long as she still has steam, I think she can beach. Or limp into American waters and sink, thus having the crew be interned. Rainbow is also doomed I think, and so is the submarine...her diesels are destroyed, her batteries are nearly flat...

That's my reading. That said, I don't necessarily expect Nurnberg to simply roll over and sink. OTL, both Nurnberg and Konigsberg took fearsome beatings to put down. Don't misunderstand, I don't expect her to live, I just don't expect her to roll over and sink. Immediately, at any rate.

I read it the opposite way. The damaged Nurnberg rammed the sub and got torpedoed.

I think Leipzig is fine, though which was what my point was. No more torpedoes, no more ships to fight. If I'm the senior captain, if Nurnberg is still floating, and can make it to a place to beach, I want to pull all the ammo and crew off that I can. I know that the Canadian Navy has pretty...

Great battle. Not over yet either. There is I think no torpedoes left

This is a non-starter. The UK crews would have to be trained on unfamiliar ships, that aren't easily supported by the UK. By the time you are ready to do that, the situation has changed. Without hostilities, the Germans can't really send ships in support manned by German crews either. With HMS...

I know the process took at least a year on US battleships, however that included (In all cases I think) other modernizations, including deck armor, new rangefinders and other new toys, as well as being done in peace time in a leisurely fashion. I imagine that boilers alone could be done inside...

Not as much as you think, most can be done dockside. The AA requires bolting some more light guns to the deck. It will leave light on medium and heavy AA, but it's an old ship. The main gun elevation shouldn't require more than adjustments to the machinery and possibly cutting the embrasures...

She's not worth the money to refit. Shift her to oil firing, enhance main battery elevation, and enhanced AA fit perhaps. Beyond that, the money is better spent on more capable units, like Renown or Hood, certainly not on one-offs that don't otherwise fit the fleet. If Canada wants to cough up...

I just found this, and you can count me following. Good writing. I would anticipate HMS Canada to be a deathtrap. With her bulges added, I would expect her to top out at 21 knots, and her crew will not be fully worked up on the main battery without a good long target shoot that is not going to...

USS Milwaukee is less happy times: