DBWI- What if no German Battleship came to Titanic's rescue?

As everyone knows that hundreds of passengers who otherwise would have died in the tragic sinking of the Titanic were saved by the passing German battleship Rheinland. The ship which was only a few miles away saw Titanic's distress flags and raced to the location and immediately began rescue operations.

This event ushered in a new wave of friendship between Britain and Germany which years later would keep Britain out of the Continental War. Following the German invasion of Belgium and France many politicians in Britain refused to vote for war against Germany citing German friendship.

Of course several months later the French front collapsed leading to a Central powers victory and a redrawing of the colonial map of Africa and minor border adjustments in Europe as well as sweeping changes to the dynamic in Eastern Europe.

What would have happened if the Rheinland was not in the right place at the right time and Britain voted to join the Continental War?
 
As everyone knows that hundreds of passengers who otherwise would have died in the tragic sinking of the Titanic were saved by the passing German battleship Rheinland. The ship which was only a few miles away saw Titanic's distress flags and raced to the location and immediately began rescue operations.

This event ushered in a new wave of friendship between Britain and Germany which years later would keep Britain out of the Continental War. Following the German invasion of Belgium and France many politicians in Britain refused to vote for war against Germany citing German friendship.

Of course several months later the French front collapsed leading to a Central powers victory and a redrawing of the colonial map of Africa and minor border adjustments in Europe as well as sweeping changes to the dynamic in Eastern Europe.

What would have happened if the Rheinland was not in the right place at the right time and Britain voted to join the Continental War?

OOC: Was it close OTL or are you making that up? Either way it isn't ASB as it could have been, I am just curious.

IC: Probably a curbstomp the other way. After all GB had an entire empire to back it up.
 

Karl von Muller

I don't know about SMS Rheinland but in the OTL Titanic sunk 15 April 1912, and on 19th May the Battlecruiser SMS Moltke along with the cruisers Bremem and Stettin left Germany for a goodwill tour of the USA.

Had they gone a few weeks earlier who knows?
 
OOC: How would it have seen flags at night from several miles away? What would the ship have been doing that far out into the Atlantic?

Torqumada
 
Hmmm. Couldn't a Britain that was on friendly terms with both France and Germany have served as a fair broker for negotiations that would have avoided the Great War altogether or persuaded them to agree to a ceasefire after hostilities began?

That said, the proposed TL would eventually allow Germany to send more troops and supplies to the eastern front after the collapse of France.
 
That said, the proposed TL would eventually allow Germany to send more troops and supplies to the eastern front after the collapse of France.

I would think it's the opposite? If GB is neutral, instead of intervening on Germany's side, then France might not have fallen at all, given how critical British troops were in the Battle of Paris. Hell, without the Germans dialing back their naval program, Britain might even have intervened on France's side, resulting in a delayed German victory.

edit: NVM, upon rereading OP, disregard please
 
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As everyone knows that hundreds of passengers who otherwise would have died in the tragic sinking of the Titanic were saved by the passing German battleship Rheinland. The ship which was only a few miles away saw Titanic's distress flags and raced to the location and immediately began rescue operations.

This event ushered in a new wave of friendship between Britain and Germany which years later would keep Britain out of the Continental War. Following the German invasion of Belgium and France many politicians in Britain refused to vote for war against Germany citing German friendship.

Of course several months later the French front collapsed leading to a Central powers victory and a redrawing of the colonial map of Africa and minor border adjustments in Europe as well as sweeping changes to the dynamic in Eastern Europe.

What would have happened if the Rheinland was not in the right place at the right time and Britain voted to join the Continental War?

OCC:

Great "seeing" you LongVin. This isn't how a DBWI works. A DBWI is is a WI from a world in which an OTL event doesn't happen the way it did in OTL, and asking the question - from their perspective - what if it did? If There had been a German battleship Rhineland in the vicinity when the Titanic sank then this would work; it would work also if the ship named was the Carpathia.

Here's an example...
DBWI: What if the those who wanted to put fewer life boats aboard the Titanic had won the prevailed - how many more would have died and what might the ramifications have been in the aftermath of Titanic's sinking?
 
I would think it's the opposite? If GB is neutral, instead of intervening on Germany's side, then France might not have fallen at all, given how critical British troops were in the Battle of Paris. Hell, without the Germans dialing back their naval program, Britain might even have intervened on France's side, resulting in a delayed German victory.
The OP posits that France falls within several months of hostilities commencing.
 
The OP posits that France falls within several months of hostilities commencing.

OOC: Which would be the DB timeline, which is the DB OTL, right.

Though having relooked my post, I think I failed to read the OP enough, disregard anyways.
 
Hell, without the Germans dialing back their naval program, Britain might even have intervened on France's side, resulting in a delayed German victory.

Why would Britain have joined forces with the French? Germany is familly and Britain had been fighting the French on and off for 850 years. I know Kaiser Bill could be a bit of a berk but that really is ridiculas. Even if Anglo-German relations were poor the most Britain would have done is use it's economic strength, and the potential of the RN imposing a blockade on the belligerants to force them to the negotiating table. Just like we did in Italy Austro-Hungary border affair in 1916.
 

Titus_Pullo

Banned
Was 60 million people killed during the Second Continental War worth a few thousand from the Titanic? Sure France lost the First Continental War, but that only pushed the country towards a renewed sense of uber patriotic fervor after their 3rd Revolution in the 1920s and the rise of the National Socialist French Worker's Party and the start of the most destructive war in European history in 1936.
 
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