HMS Audacious makes it to County Donegal

In October 1914, the dreadnought HMS Audacious hit a mine and sank.

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The sinking was off the coast of Ireland's County Donegal.

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Had she instead beached off the coast of Ireland, could the Admiralty keep it as secret as IOTL? This is in a republican-leaning district of pre-independence Ireland, would the arrival of a battleship and the significant recovery effort be resented by the locals? During the Irish war of independence, County Donegal was the scene of many violent acts against unionists, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Irish_War_of_Independence

Imagine the ship is in a similar position to the decommissioned Warspite below, though Audacious keeps her guns of course. Is this a target for terrorism - a bomb against the exposed hull could blow up the magazine.

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Would terrorism be a significant threat considering just how many RN personnel and ships would be surrounding her?
If HMS Audacious makes it to be beached on the coast, would she not be the centre of a massive salvage effort as in 1914 she is very much a front line first rate warship?
How long would it take for her to be patched up and refloated and transferred to a floating dry dock for repair?
I would have thought the inevitable escort forces in position to stop any German Uboat or raider attack would easily deal with any other threat?
 
Had she instead beached off the coast of Ireland, could the Admiralty keep it as secret as IOTL? This is in a republican-leaning district of pre-independence Ireland, would the arrival of a battleship and the significant recovery effort be resented by the locals? During the Irish war of independence, County Donegal was the scene of many violent acts against unionists, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Irish_War_of_Independence

Imagine the ship is in a similar position to the decommissioned Warspite below, though Audacious keeps her guns of course. Is this a target for terrorism - a bomb against the exposed hull could blow up the magazine.
Ireland wasn't very republican in 1914. It took the delay of home rule, a tiny minority uprising, war crimes by British Army putting down the uprising and executions of the leaders of the uprising to gain any republican feeling in Ireland.
 
Ireland wasn't very republican in 1914. It took the delay of home rule, a tiny minority uprising, war crimes by British Army putting down the uprising and executions of the leaders of the uprising to gain any republican feeling in Ireland.

Even after all that it took a monumental piece of mismanagement, giving the impression that conscription was going to be introduced in Ireland, to get a sizable section of the electorate voting for independence parties.
In the first war recruitment in Ireland to fight for Britain was volunteer only, and there was no shortage.
There is an argument that the loss of so many loyalists at Gallipoli and the Somme reduced the pro-union electorate, and embittered those who were left.
But in 1914 that was all in the future.
 

Don Quijote

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Donegal was one of the most Unionist counties, outside of the six which make up modern Northern Ireland. I doubt the risk to the ship would be particularly high anyway, attacking a beached ship which is already crippled does very little for the cause of Irish independence/Home Rule.
 
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