Best British battlefleet for ww1

The communication issues supposedly can generally be tracked to Seymour in all of the engagements he was present in. I’m not massive Beatty hater or fanboy but it’s extremely obvious who’s in the wrong here.

I would wager to say besides those situational cockups, the communication technology and systems were generally fine for the period.

As people have mentioned before, the two largest issues facing the Royal Navy isn’t individual ship designs, it’s generally the cordite and shells used. It doesn’t matter how heavily armoured your ships are when you can have a modern battleship explode from a shot to the casemates (like Malaya almost did at Jutland) or ignite powder in the turrets for example from splinters getting through the sighting hoods/turret roofs.

Having more reliable shells and removing the massive chance for your extremely valuable/expensive ships to explode/randomly explode in port should be at the top of the list. It doesn’t matter how strict your flash protection is if your cordite is that unstable.

Best way really is to completely phase out cordite and switch to something similar to what the Germans or Americans were using.

Bad powder + good flash protection = boom

Good powder + bad flash protection = fire
 
Honestly I think the two main issues facing the Royal navy are A) a lack of communication between their ships which made for problems in battle, partly Seymour is to blame but I have also heard that he just made an already bad system completely fail. And B) British shell propellant and shell handling practices were faulty and caused the loss of several of ships during Jutland.
To fix the first issue Seymour needs to be either replaced by a more competent man, not an easy feat in that era, but maybe he fell from the ship while underway and drowned? Dont really know but accidents can happen to anyone. For the cordite issue I could see this being resolved if the fleet had a major accident, maybe one or more of the fleets predreadnoughts suffered a massive magazine explosion while in harbour. Even a good fire may jolt the British into fixing the problem.

With these issues, communications and cordite being fixed or at least made less of an issue then the RN would not really have any major issues it would need fixed. True some of its ships are not as well designed as they could be, Dreadnought and her sisters as well as the I class and had major problems in service. But compared to the ships they were originally designed to counter, I.E. last generation predreadnoughts and armored cruisers, they compared very well. While the ships foreign nations had built to counter Dreadnought had themselves been well countered by newer and more powerful designs such as the Orions, Iron Duke and others, while the QEs which are just coming on line are far and away superior to anything most other navies have in service or building. Basically the navy was already pretty much ideal to do what it needed to do, provided a few major issues be solved it would have performed its role extremely well, not to say it did not fight a very good war already historically.
 
and the ships nicely painted.

I think the Americans named a cruise missile after Sir Charles... They called it "The Loon". The thing I remember most about him, was that he tried to "exactly replicate" the Lebanon Disaster when he commanded the Channel Fleet. Lot of Grigory Kulik^1 in Sir Charles Beresford.

^1 Kulik is usually blamed for the short barrel L11 7.6 cm gun in the 1941 T-34 which had a bad habit of not penetrating German tanks. The longer barreled F34 was a better gun, but was in short supply and otherwise restricted to Leningrad production, but Stalin needed a scapegoat. TBH Kulik did enough damage elsewhere that his minor role in the T-34 was perfectly ignorable as only one of many foul balls as well as venally ignoble. Want to shoot him? Do it for the Winter War and for denouncing Tukhachevsky.
 
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... I concur.
Although if you have to get rid of him for the sake of politics Fisher isn't a terrible option just keep him away from the naval design teams and point him at the terrible quality of the RN's shells and a lack of safety protocols enforcement along with poor communications
 
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