WHAT IF: Seydlitz sunk at Jutland

ghappy1000

What if battlecruiser Seydlitz was sunk at Jutland? Pods are and can be 1. receiving extra shell hits or another torpedo for damage 2. Trying to keep up with Moltke and steam at 20t knots, maybe not even running aground just in time to save it. Maybe, not finishing repairs to the mine damage properly also makes it possible, but I don't see it.
 
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zoomar

Germany will have lost two first-line BCs and have had the others roughed up a lot...a bad trade for the British BC and AC losses. The battle will still be seen as something of a tactical draw given the high personnel losses the British suffered, but Germans claims of a tactical victory will seem a lot more hollow. Jellicoe will still be faulted for not acheiving a Nelsonian victory by unrealistic Englishmen.
 

Devolved

It makes no difference at all to World War One or its outcome.

The High Seas Fleet never fought the Grand Fleet again.

The Germans would still claim they won. The news of the Seydlitz sinking would be kept quiet same as losing the Lutzow.

So unless the Seydlitz sinks in broad daylight in full view of the Royal Navy the British won't know about it until much later.

The decision to go to unrestricted submarine warfare would still be taken.

After the war Jutland would be seen as a British victory by all but the most die hard Reich fanboy.
 

DD951

Seydlitz going down at Jutland should have a negligible effect on both the strategic results of the battle and the war as a whole.

As far as I can tell, the main effects would be to somewhat deflate the German tactical victory arguments that get thrown around, and of course, the butterflies that would be caused by the extra losses among her crew that would presumably result from her being lost, though unless some of them (or their descendants) went on to do something important, those would be relatively minor in terms of the big picture as well.
 
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