WI : The turret A of the HMS Collingwood was blasted in the Battle of Jutland?

[Neirdak]

Aboard the HMS Collingwood was a sub-lieutenant commanding "A" turret and who is reported as having sat in the open on the turret roof to watch the action.

This daring turret officer who will get commended was named Albert Frederick Arthur George of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He was Prince Albert, the younger brother of the Prince of Wales, and future King George VI.

This turret could be blasted by a german ship or simply explode due to malfunctions.

Here is her status in the Battle
- http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/H.M.S._Collingwood_at_the_Battle_of_Jutland

 

[BlondieBC]

This turret could be blasted by a german ship or simply explode due to malfunctions.

British lose one more ship? Unless there is someone important on this ship such as future PM or Admiral in WW1, the butterflies will be hard to quantify but they will exist and get larger over time.

 

[historyfool]

British lose one more ship? Unless there is someone important on this ship such as future PM or Admiral in WW1, the butterflies will be hard to quantify but they will exist and get larger over time.

I´d say a future king of England still qualifies as important at the time.

 

[Driftless]

I´d say a future king of England still qualifies as important at the time.

If Albert/George VI doesn't survive Jutland, how does that change the Edward VIII/Wallis Simpson crisis? How was Prince Henry viewed at the time as "plan C"

 

[David S Poepoe]

Turrets do not explode due to malfunctions. There could be a problem with the munitions and cordite within them.