royal navy

Anyways, with a POD in spring of 1915, this is the alternate world in 1923, as a semi- to almost-realistic take on the popular Hearts of Iron 4 mod, Kaiserreich. The objective is to determine the outcome of this alternate Washington Naval Treaty.

In 1905, the Royal Navy embarked on a brand new trajectory, commissioning construction of HMS Dreadnought, an all-big gun battleship with a main battery of 10 x 12” guns and powered by turbine engines. This changed the nature of battle-fleets, and immediately rendered all previous capital ships...

In our much beloved TL, The Whale Has Wings, a powerful ATL Royal Navy carrier force with ATL aircraft conducts a night strike on Wilhelmshaven in 1939, to the detriment of the Kriegsmarine. My question is, could a similar thing be done IRL with OTL's resources? The POD is that, after the...

What are the ways to give American a stronger Navy and make the Royal navy weaker? would having Canada (Quebec), Nova Scotia, and Saint John Island(Prince Edward Island) joining have any noticeable effect? like having Quebec's Iron works help or Halifax somehow being taken by patriot forces...

Westminster, 31st March 1982 Pausing only to make a quick phone call to get an update on the disposition and readiness of his fleet and having found the defence secretary not in his office in the Ministry of Defence but at an emergency meeting to discuss the emergent situation the fully...

Something not many people are aware of is that George Washington very nearly joined the Royal Navy. Only his mother begging him to stay convinced him not to take his appointment as a midshipman. There are a lot of jokes to be made comparing this to Luke Skywalker wanting to enroll in the...

The G3 was planned class of the battlecruiser for the Royal Navy post WW1. This ship were cancelled because of the Washington Naval Treaty. The Treaty allowed the signatories to convert two existing or under construction capital ships into aircraft carries with a displacement of 33 000 tons...

Hi all, I am looking for some feedback on a portion of a TL I am (very slowly) working on. TL is more of less a Britiwank going all the way back to the mid 19th Century. My aim is to try and build a logical and reasonable (and hopefully interesting) story even while hitting many of the standard...

Hi all, This is another POD provided by Percy Scott's autobiography "Fifty Years in the Royal Navy". And so I need to give a disclaimer. A lot of Scott's book consists of essentially "The Admiralty could have/should have done X but they decided not to". The book is chock full of AH POD's. To...

Hi all, So I came across the following quote recently in Percy Scott’s autobiography “Fifty years in the Royal Navy: “The depth charge, which ultimately turned out to be the antidote to the submarine, furnishes a remarkable illustration of Admiralty methods. Who invented it? It has even been...

Hey all, I have been looking at WW1 British history lately and came across a POD that I was surprised to find no thread on. Maybe it exists and I just haven't seen it, in which case please post a link. OK, in the opening stages of WW1 Admiral Von Spee's Far East Squadron left Asia to raid...

I was wondering just what it would take for the British RN to adopt the concept of the AFD/Armoured Box carriers earlier then they did IOTL? Instead of having Ark Royal being what it was OTL, could we have ATL Ark Royal become the first of the British Armoured carriers, as RN comes to an...

Chapter 1 While Britain had indeed come out of the Great War victorious, it was by no means an awe inspiring victory nor one that managed to make Britain stronger in the long run. Its war debt with America was extremely high which had turned Britain from a net creditor to a net debtor. Britain...

What are the plausible ways that the HSF could've beaten the RN at Jutland?

As the title says, how would the Royal Navy battleship develop without the Anglo-German naval arms race or even WWI? Say the Germans concentrate more on their Army, modernising their fleet but not attempting to challenge the RN? I’m assuming Dreadnought would still be built and all-big gun...

I've been trying to research an answer to this to no avail, so maybe the brilliant minds here at alternate history.com can help me out. The question in particular I have in mind is: if a minor army officer was dissatisfied with his posting, would he be able to get re-assigned if he complained...

Hello there. Searching for unrelated things found the Invergordon Mutiny. It was as an industrial action by around 1,000 sailors in the British Atlantic Fleet that took place on 15–16 September 1931. Did not find a ATL that deal with it. Kind of amazing considering that the National Government...

At the Battle of Jutland the British had 8 armoured cruisers as part of the Grand Fleet. My question is how much use were they? Reading through some of the basic details it seems like half of them didn't really become engaged whilst the other half was sunk. I'm looking at a possible timeline...

Rumours of War The assassination of an Austrian Archduke would trigger a war that had been building for years. However, as the echoes of the shots died away, it was not immediately obvious that would be a world war. The Great Powers did not react immediately; ‘We should not be greatly concerned...

The battlecruiser as a design and concept splits opinion. There are those who see them as a mistake and waste of resources in general and there are those who see them more of a missed opportunity. IMHO, the genesis of the battlecruiser makes sense, the need for a “super cruiser” to combat...