What would have happened to the High Seas Fleet if it had not been scuttled in 1919?

The larger ships will be given to various navies (France/Italy) but the RN might only want one to use for technical intel - the UK is not metric so everything including simple stuff has to be made specially. One possibility would be to give/sell some of the smaller ships (cruisers/destroyers) to S. American countries (or Japan or China). The idea here being give several of one class to a country and for every 2 they get one is for parts/pierside training. Cruisers and larger destroyers would be good for S. America, China.

As far as U-boats go, the US as well as UK and France will want some for testing/evaluation. I doubt the major naval powers will want anyone else getting these to play with.

Other than technical evaluation, the USA has no use for any of these ships (note what some they got were used for OTL - targets). They have lots of modern up to date locally made ships either just built or well on the way to completion. Simply no need to acquire ships they need to special build all parts for.
 
Ok, here's my second go in as many days at asking a naval question that doesn't turn out to be daft:

If Versailles had awarded France the Bayern, wouldn't it be easy to also get France awarded the factory, tools, tools-that-make-tools, etc, needed to keep it supplied with parts for maintenance?

No, probably hard to accomplish. However as an interesting butterfly, a piece of the German naval heavy industry gets long term maintenance order and is saved from dismantling. Ironically, this is perhaps the best POD I've seen for a better German Navy:rolleyes:.
 
The remaining ships are given back to Germany to apease Hitler in the 1930s?
Converting the better ships, the Derfflingers, Konigs and Bayerns into longer range, 30+ knot units capable of merchant raiding would tax Germany's interwar resources and capabilities.

I'd say stick with modifying the later battlecruisers, such as the Derfflinger class, and mothball/scrap the battleships and older battlecruisers, waiting to pull the guns for other uses. Looking at the below, one could imagine the central turret removed and replaced with additional boilers and machinery, covered with a much larger AAA suite and perhaps a catapult. Essentially a German Doria/Cavour conversion.

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No, probably hard to accomplish. However as an interesting butterfly, a piece of the German naval heavy industry gets long term maintenance order and is saved from dismantling. Ironically, this is perhaps the best POD I've seen for a better German Navy:rolleyes:.

how does a german factory transported to the french (coast?) help the german navy?
 

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how does a german factory transported to the french (coast?) help the german navy?
I think he means if the manufacturing capacity remains in Germany and the French buy or take as Versailles reparation.
That capacity is then available to Germany once re-armament happens.
 
I think he means if the manufacturing capacity remains in Germany and the French buy or take as Versailles reparation.
That capacity is then available to Germany once re-armament happens.

well posts 8 and 10 both mention physically moving the factory ala russia in ww2

and if it stays in why does Germany automatically get it back once rearmament starts

surely its possible that this factory is in the rhineland and once the Germans try to take it back the French go 'i dont think so' rather than letting the OTL remilitarisation go ahead as normal
 
There. Is. No. Single. Factory.

The spare valves are made by a different company to the fuel injectors, which is different again to the training gear for the main armament, which is different to... you get the picture. To do this, you need pretty much the entire German naval industry to remain intact. It's a non-starter.

The Germans could be compelled to hand over the manufacturing drawings for every spare part on the ship, which in 1919 means an immense amount of paper. French factories would be perfectly capable of manufacturing them as limited-run parts, but because the design standards would be unfamiliar and quantities small, they'd be very expensive.

This is what was generally done in OTL when Power A needed to support Power B's ships. It could be done, but nobody liked it.
 
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