Is it possible to have the Dreadnought race provoke a naval war between the Germans and the British? I know a lot of you will suggest the Agadir crisis, but I don't want that because it would involve France and probably result in an early WW1. So is it plausible for a created incident to draw Germany and England into a purely naval conflict around 1912 (When Germany had eight and the British had twelve commissioned dreadnoughts*)
*The British probably had fewer actually because they presumably had a few dedicated to the Mediterranean Fleet.
*The British probably had fewer actually because they presumably had a few dedicated to the Mediterranean Fleet.