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



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



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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