WI: German Imperial High Seas fleet isn’t scuttled

If and its a big if NM or RM get larger ships they might well keep them?

RN will want to kill of B&B and the BCs (and will anyway scrap anything she gets)
USN will want equality (in numbers) and will also scrap
IJN will be happy to get as much as Fr/It to show its a major power (and will scrap)
Fr &It are the only ones who might keep ships if they get anything worthwhile?

In order that RN might want them the ships are,
Baden & Bayern
Derfflinger & Hindenburg
Seydlitz
Moltke
Von der Tann
König class x4
Kaiser class x 5

France might get two or three Konigs if so they would presumably keep them come WNT instead of the OTL three Danton class predreadnoughts of OTL, so they might be around come WWII even if as training ships.

Itally might get given a couple of Kaisers but she will scrap them for money reasons like her OTL ships IMO in 20s
Italy scraped the A-H ships very rapidly.
One thing that will come out of this is a lot of guns for possible use in shore batteries.
 
In order that RN might want them the ships are,
Baden & Bayern
Derfflinger & Hindenburg
Seydlitz
Moltke
Von der Tann
König class x4
Kaiser class x 5
For the sake of justice for the dead I'd like to see Seydlitz scrapped in West Hartlepool and her guns added to the coastal defences of the two towns.
 
For the sake of justice for the dead I'd like to see Seydlitz scrapped in West Hartlepool and her guns added to the coastal defences of the two towns.
If you apply that logic to other navies USS New Jersey's guns would be spread all over the world...
 
By the time any WWII battleships are ready to be scrapped, large caliber coastal guns have pretty much become irrelevant. This is not the case following WWI, both main guns and secondary guns of those ships could be useful in coastal defenses.Had Wake had their guns fully installed, and perhaps some 8" guns taken off various ships (as suggested in another thread), the Japanese would have been completely hosed. In the case of the most modern German ships, the guns are almost new and even the predreadnought guns may need relining at the most.
 
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