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Thank you both. I will be back to this soon. Very soon, likely next week, just had a few distractions.

Thanks, that was a really interesting read.

This is true. Of course, OTL, this is what Hawaii were keen on.

Interesting thoughts to be sure.

0400 29 June 1942, Scapa Flow Naval Base, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom Rear Admiral Drew watched the force form up. Force X they were to be called, the operation itself code-named ES. It was all a rather strange business. The anti-aircraft cruisers Sirius and Curacoa had been working up...

1916, 28 June 1942, Reykjavik, Occupied Iceland Captain Lawrence Dodd had steered the damaged liberty ship Richard Bland back to harbour. She was the first ship to turn back after running aground on uncharted rocks off Iceland. It had taken some Homeric efforts from his own crew and the...

Actually I think @Gudestein has it correct to a degree. Of course, in capital ship engagements, one bad hit can determine the result. At longer range, the Germans will really struggle. The MK3 fire control system on Washington could detect a shell splash at 20000yds. Surface and air search. Far...

Yes, taking refuge on a foreign ships may be counter productive to the native Hawaiian cause. What you say in regards to Cleveland is very true. Grover Cleveland is only six weeks away from assuming office. He was very much a non expansionist President. Of course, 1898 and the Spanish American...

Yes, very much so. Yes, it would take a lot to bring the US and Japan together, but the threat of another external power is always the number one motivator for alliances.

Yes, I think any warship explosions are off the table, at least from a saboteur point of view.

15 January 1893, United States Legation, Honolulu, Kingdom of Hawaii Lorrin Thurston felt confident that they could proceed with their plans to overthrow the current Hawaiian royal government, based on the discussion they had held the previous night on Saturday 14th. The aim was simple enough...

LIkely so. Poor weather condition are not hard to find in that part of the world...

Wichita and Tuscaloosa are with the escorts. Ranger had just retu8rned from a ferry mission to Africa. Nashville was in the Pacific post March 1942.

Earmarked for the Pacific with the Wasp Task Force. It cannot be underestimated how short on heavy ships the allies were in early to mid 1942. The only ship the British had in theater not working up, under refit or repair was Malaya. KGV, QE, Valiant under repair, Rodney refit, Nelson on her to...

Hey, it was a pretty shit design, but it had been to Norway before. Many German designs left a lot to be desired, legacy of having no continuity in regards a design team.

Please note I will now be getting back to this after I have revised the start to perhaps make it more "interesting". It has meant that I have made a new first post, cut and pasted the first post into the second spot, the second into the third, etc etc.

1812 28 June 1942, cruiser Koln, Trondheim, Occupied Norway Kapitän zur See Friedrich Hüffmeier's light cruiser Koln anchored in the Fjord, her two companion destroyers having already done so. The German naval forces were in their planned distributions for Operation Rösselsprung, with both...

Yes, twins and singles. Effectively it is a mini dreadnought, just with cruiser rate weapons I suppose. For that reason, will likely not be considered. Of course, engines are still triple expansion.

That probably won't happen, but she will not stay on passenger runs to Europe post the 1893 election wash up. Thankfully, the ship has partially been refitted for cargo and the vents of 1894 will see a use for her. 1893 will see a major diplomatic incident, followed by a war in 1894.

11 January 1893, PNS Gillies, Malma Bay, Kingdom of Hawaii The battleship PNS Gilles had reached the apex of her shakedown cruise, from whence she had stopped at 14 separate ports. This was her last stop of significance, scheduled to be a seven day stop over before she made her way back to...