Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon survives

HMS Victoria sank after colliding with HMS Camperdown, off Lebanon 1893. On Victoria, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon was reported to have said, "it was my fault...". If he survives, for example is pulled from the water, what happens? Would he be beached, imprisoned, transferred to the Falklands base, etc? Would be recant his reported statement and blame his captains?

The RN's Mediterranean Fleet was the RN's top fighting force of the time, where polish and maneuver was more important than gunnery. Losing one the RN's battleships and risking another would not be easily forgiven, though Tryon was very politically connected.

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This event reminds me of USS Washington and USS Indiana's collision in 1944

Indiana announced by radio at 0420 that she was turning towards the left and slowing to fifteen knots. However, her Commanding Officer, based on a "seaman's eye" evaluation of the situation, apparently thought better of that course and a short time later changed direction toward the formation's right. This was not reported to the rest of the ships and, about seven minutes after she began her turn, Indiana was seen close ahead of the battleship Washington's port bow. The latter ordered her engines to "back, emergency full" and put her rudder hard left. Indiana also maneuvered in an effort to avoid a collision. However, in about a minute the two big ships ran together, with Washington's bow scraping down the after portion of Indiana's starboard side.

https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/events/wwii-pac/marshals/wash-ind.htm

Then we have the RAN chopping a US can in half.

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