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Based upon this thread, I decided to combine a previous thread of mine with this concept, to try to get a better picture of what happened OTL, and just what the consequences of a German victory at Jutland would likely have been.

So, for starters, go read the OP in both those threads, and in the second thread (mine), feel free to read to the end, as some good background work has already been done and for some shocking discoveries about the OTL naval arms race between the UK and Germany. I think "shocking" is not too strong a word, at least for folks, who like me, just thought that both sides were, indeed, making a full on race of it, and then discover the truth!

For the initial (and, I at least, feel very un-likely to occur) premise, let’s say that the historical fleets meet, and the whole of the (151 committed ships of the) GF are completely wiped out, for say 2/3 of the (99 committed ships of the) HSF. To get a clear picture of just what exactly the remaining balance of fleet strengths would be, could someone post a list of what the UK has left, assuming no additional ships than OTL?

Here and here, are a pair of links to previous (and sadly incomplete) information posts, that can get folks started. Note; the UK didn’t commit any pre-dreadnoughts to the OTL battle of Jutland, nor the HMS Dreadnought herself, nor several of the other ships that followed her, so all of those are going to remain. The second link shows the entire HSF (minus the BC’s) big gunned ships, and to my understanding, all those that preceded the Deutschland class were not in the BoJ either, and thus would be potentially available for immediate use thereafter. Also note, that the German response to the QE class, the Bayern class, were not ready at the time of Jutland either, and so would have been ready just about the time the remaining ships were just starting to come back into service, after their extensive repairs would have been completed.

My own (and some others thoughts) on what this would mean can be found here, here, here, and here, but perhaps with a discussion dedicated to this particular question, we can get the clearest picture yet.

Any thoughts?
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