The 'Battlecruiser panic' - A mini TL. (bit wanky sorry!)

Nope, she was hit fairly early on by the torpedo and fought with the hole for most of the battle. Also the torpedo was apparently a shallow runner and hit high up on the hull and did that great big hole in the hull because it's depth setting seems to have been off.
 
Thank you for the details, some really top notch damage control done there. That coffer dam is very impressive, just enough to get her over the dock sill.
 
Thank you for the details, some really top notch damage control done there. That coffer dam is very impressive, just enough to get her over the dock sill.
Take a good look at the forward turret. Guns and roof armour are missing. They (along with other fwd weight) were removed to allow the bow to get over the dock sill in the first place. As I recall, the bow was full submerged when she got home.....
 
My point entirely, in order to raise the bow to get over the dock sill they not only had to remove hundreds of tons of top weight steel but they had to contain the flooding by expedient means and use massive pumping power. Just look at the mess of hoses everywhere. It is truly a tribute to hers constructors and damage control teams that she made it back at all.
 
We've seen how the development of naval aviation differed from OTL in terms of organisation and aircraft, how do things look different in terms of carriers?
 
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