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Would it have been possible to enlarge the Clyde-Forth canal to take battleships and the like? Alternately, if that's just too large how large could it have been made? Enough for sea-going merchant ships? I was reading about the Clyde-Forth canal and was surprised to find that there weren't any...

The various capital ship programs cancelled by the Washington Naval treaty, G3 and N3, 8-8, and the SoDaks, have been discussed ad nauseum. However the question of how the absence of the treaty would effect cruiser design doesn't get nearly the same amount of attention. The WNT set the following...

What developments in weapons, military technology, and tactics would we see if World War 1 were delayed until 1917? I think I have a decent sense of what the naval developments would be in such a scenario but I really don't know much about the land and air aspects. That being said here are my...

What if at the First Battle of the Marne the French Fifth Army and the BEF had managed to drive through the gap between the German First and Second Armies and successfully encircled and destroyed them? How would the war have progressed? Would the remaining German armies have been able reorient...

HMS Waterwitch was an experimental ship built in 1866 to test a new form of propulsion called the Ruthven impeller. This was a sort of waterjet that used high-power pumps to feed seawater into a water turbine which pressurized the water and shot it out of tubes on either side of the hull...

I've been trying to research the Kingdom of Ormus recently but I've found almost no information online aside from the wikipedia article which has some quality issues of its own. Does anyone know anything about it or know of any good sources for information about it?

What is the earliest a working, practical ekranoplan could be developed and what would the uses of such a vehicle be? I'm thinking 1930's to WWII is the earliest it would be technically possible. As to uses I envision it as a sort of equivalent to the Italian MAS boats (is it even possible to...

I was reading about some of the battleship programs that were cancelled because of WW1 and I had the idea to write up alternate naval battles. I've got a few ideas kicking around for more but I'll wait and see how this one goes first. I apologize in advance for the wall of text, I do have images...

So this is really a two part question: 1)What effect did the First World War have on the abilities of the Royal Navy's personnel? How much of an effect did the war have on the officers and men who crewed the ships. Was it critical for the development if their abilities? 2) In terms of...

Come up with ATL royal styles in place of Your Majesty, Your Highness, Your Grace etc. Go!

So I'm wondering if anyone can tell me, or can direct me to a resource that can, how to determine the effectiveness of naval armor, ideally from the pre-dreadnought period. Specifically I'm looking for a way to figure out how much protection a given thickness of armor would provide against a...

Hey all, In OTL Xu Shouhui was a rebel leader in the 14th century rebellions against the Yuan dynasty. By 1352 he had taken a sizable portion of China until he was defeated by a Mongol army and then in 1360 Xu was assassinated by Chen Youliang. From what I've read I get the impression that...

This is an idea for a timeline I originally posted in the "ideas we've had but haven't executed" thread a while back. This is what I've outlined for it so far. During the English Civil War Charles II is almost killed but is saved by a Virginian serving in the army. They become very close...

What if Chen Youliang had defeated Zhu Yuanzhang at the Battle of Lake Poyang? Lets say that ITTL Chen crushes Zhu's smaller fleet and Zhu himself is killed(this is basically what happened OTL just with the winners and losers switched). A Dahan(Chen's faction) victory would cement them as...

Lets say that Franz Ferdinand is not assassinated in 1914. What would be the likely and/or possible causes of WWI(I am of the opinion that war at that point was basically inevitable)? Also would the two sides be the same as OTL?

After World War I the Royal Navy and United States Navy were on the verge of a naval arms race. OTL it was avoided by the Washington Naval Treaty and the isolationists regaining control in the US(plus the expense to the Royal Navy). My thinking is along these lines: First, if the N3...

during the Congo Free State era Britain was a centre of opposition to Leopold II. At one point Britain wanted to get the the signatories of the Berlin Conference together to look at the situation. Even though these weren't direct tensions between Britain and Belgium could these have affected...

I am working on an idea for a timeline that involves an alliance between the United States and Russia beginning in the civil war. Historically the Russian navy did have a number of ships based in New York which was generally considered a favorable intervention by the American public(modern...