Triple turrets for the armour-penetration problem

The Royal Navy might adopt triple turrets earlier if it expected to face unusually thick German armour near Helgoland. One option gives HMS Dreadnought a triple fifth turret, producing eleven guns and a nine-gun broadside instead of ten and eight. A more radical centreline arrangement of triple turrets combined with twin wing turrets could produce an eleven-gun broadside. More projectiles would increase both the chance of a hit at range and the chance of striking an already damaged area whose armour had resisted the first shell. The layout is a speculative response to the armour-penetration problem, rather than a claim about the ship Britain historically built.