No German torpedo failures 1939/40

New to this forum but can somebody tell me what ships the Royal Navy would have lost, I know the Rodney and Ark Royal were subject to duds but would they and what other ships would have been damaged also I think the Warspite would have been a gonner before she entered Narvik fjords
 
HMS Warspite too was hit by two duds, shortly before leaving the Vestfjorden to Narvik, meaninf after the attack, U-48 claimed two hits, which were duds. "Two metal bumbs were hear in the U-Boat, some twenty seconds or so after launching three torepdoes at the battleship."

Before the actual attack by the Homefleet on Narvik, U-46 was within 600 yards of the battleship, but could not turn in time, to engage, before HMS Warspite rounded a cape, shielding her atainst U-46.

U-48 also had fired two times three torpedoes at the Cruisers of the Homefleet, most likely HMS Penelope and the destroyer Punjabi, or Eskimo, misidentified as cruiser as well. On the 11th of April, U-48 fired twice a salvo of thre at two targets, with the final result that four torpedoes exploded prematurely and two missed. Klt z. S. Schultze compalined that in two days time out of twelve torpedoes fired in all, over half exploded prematurely and the rest missed their mark. "Something was very wrong with our torpedoes", acorcing to his log. After this, Dönitz ordered an investigation on the matter to solve the problems.

See: Haarr, G. H.: "The invasion of Norway, april 1940", ISBN 978-1-84832-032-1
 
HMS Wolverine is a goner for sure, and the others here have mentioned the capital ships... U-99 might have taken out Walker and Vanoc (not that shots against them where duds, as they where out of ammo but they had to use more torpedoes on merchies during that cruise because they had several that failed to detonate... less fish on the merchies means she might have popped off one of both of the British ships
 

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Winston Churchill was aboard at the time.

Would hid death really mean the British negotiate? If so, the does the US come to the aid of Stalin and how does the US then fight the Germans later? Or do the Germans both declaring war on the US if the British are out?
 

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Nah, even better, convert all U-boats to mine laying with 2 torpedo tubes as backup. It will not kill every ship, it may not even hit the majority but it would be enough to cripple Britain's sea trade, by then negotiating isn't an option, it would be an necessity .
 
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