RodentRevolution
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...the Deutschland count as capital ships?
They're oversized heavy cruisers.
I think there may be some confusion with the Deutschland class pre-dreadnoughts, though they actually replaced replaced Braunschweig class ships I believe.
The cruisers had an extra 11 inch gun in each turret but less armour only some 3 inchs on the belt for example. I am not sure either the 11inch 52 calibre guns on the Deutschlands or the 54.5 calibre guns on the twins or even the bored out 12.6 inch guns on the Italian battleships would have been an effective threat to the British battleships.
The only two actual modern battleships would have been desperately new as of May 1940.
A recipe for a famous RN victory if ever there was one, lots of puffing of British chests before folks point out it was hardly a fair fight.