royal navy

What if the Washington naval treaty of 1922 had allowed the British Royal Navy to keep its prior two power standard and build the Nelson class battleships and complete the rest of the admiral class (HMS Hood’s class) rather than have the same amount of capital ships as the American Navy? For...

What would it take for the talks to fail? We know the US made efforts to intercept and read the various participants' communications, in particular Japanese ones, so they had a good idea of what their red lines were. However, assuming for some reason in an ATL this wasn't so possible, or was...

Under Article VIII of the Washington naval treaty HMS Furious was, due to having started her conversion before the 12th November 1921, considered an experimental ship and therefore exempt from the rule of having to be 20 years old before being allowed to be replaced. Since her two sisters HMS...

“The Fancy” Mk XII anti submarine 21” homing torpedo The Fancy (According to the Collins Dictionary) in British English archaic “those who follow a particular sport, esp prize fighting” U125 – 220 NMs North West of the Azores 29th Dec 1942 – 13:30 hrs GMT The crew hardly dared to...

It's say, 1935 or 1936, and someone at the top of the British defense establishment realized that if Britain were to fight Japan in the Pacific, Italy in the Mediterranean, or the United States anywhere, the FAA would probably need a modern single seat, single engine fighter. If you're a...

Whenever there’s a thread about Cold War Royal Navy Carriers the following points are always brought up: 1) CVA’s are argued as missed opportunity, but with an acknowledgement they were a mess 2) the Malta’s are offered as alternative, but (mostly) disregarded as an idea best suited for service...

As we all know, British military thinking in OTL’s Cold War centred on the BAOR in Germany. In an alternate timeline where the Nazi’s managed to “win” the war in Europe (losing Africa, but beating Russia somehow and convincing a war-weary Britain into a ceasefire c.1945-46) what would British...

The Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914) was the first major naval action of the First World War and ended in a pretty solid British naval victory. During the rather confused and fog-bound battle three German light cruisers and a torpedo boat were sunk, three further light cruisers and three...

Who Dares Wins: Britain’s War of 1982-83 By: History Foundation of Europe Sarthak Bikram Panta LONDON © 2021 Chapter 1: The Fortress of Britain Modern Day Gibraltar Since the age of the Ancient Greeks, Gibraltar has had an eventful history. Considered to have been the site of the Pillars of...

So I already have an idea for this and had started to write it but I still have I road block. So we'll some of you would think to make Britain fascist, I actually going to make Germany democratic and part of the Allies. But this leave me with a couple big problems. How do I get plan Z in...

What if germany invented and made aircraft carriers during anglo german naval arms race and used them to break British blockade

04:30 24 May 1941 Captain Tennant stared worrisome at the spray and mist washing over the bow of his battlecruiser, the venerable HMS Repulse, or “Repair” as her crew had taken to calling her. Just ahead of them, leading the way, somewhere in the mist was the newly commissioned King George V...

Hi All, This came up in the Victory in Europe 1944 - Effects on the British Empire and the Postwar World thread. @Carl Schwamberger asked: When I answered with a text wall, he reasonably suggested that I spin it off into a separate thread. Which is what I am doing here. There are kind of...

During Operation JUNO in the course of the 1940 Norwegian campaign, the German battleships/battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau encountered HMS Glorious and her two escort destroyers, Ardent and Acasta. This did not go well for the British. HOWEVER: The resulting events meant that...

This is not that complicated. As many of us know, IOTL HMS Rodney contributed largely to the sinking of the Bismarck. Now try to make it so that she does in Bismarck's sister as well. Timing, context and method are up to your choosing. Nothing ASB is allowed though. Bonus points if Rodney...

The POD for this is that the German light cruisers Nürnberg and Leipzig are not torpedoed by HMS Salmon on 13 December 1939, for whatever reason. This means that they are able to participate in Operation Weserübung, the German invasion of Norway, in April 1940. The troop-carrying warships are...

I recently watched this fascinating talk by Andrew Lambert, about how Britain should have fought the First World War according to Lord Fisher’s strategy: As he explains it, the Baltic Plan was NOT, as previous posts on the topic suggest, to simply shove the Grand Fleet into the Baltic and hope...

What would happen if the Admiral Reginald Henderson, does not get his way? In 1937 British laid down 4 new Carriers of the Illustrious class, and they were designed to prioritise Armour protection over other attributes, with their Armoured Box design, which in turn limited the amount of...

As I was working on some more of my naval fiction stories recently, I was once more sidetracked (as one inevitably happens to be) by reading again about Rear Admiral Sir Horace Hood who was lost when HMS Invincible blew up at Jutland. Looking through his career history, he appears to have been...

I was thinking just how different could the Royal Navy Carrier design and perhaps doctrine be different to OTL, if they start building Carriers a bit earlier then OTL. Now, IOTL, their first modern, large carrier was Ark Royal, laid down in 1934, but just what design they would end up with if...