One reconstruction of the unbuilt HMS Agincourt gives her about 28 knots and six 18-inch guns in three turrets on a modified Queen Elizabeth hull. This remains a suspicion drawn from the unusual ordering arrangements, concealed gun-development terminology, and small-tube boilers later used in Courageous and Glorious. The boiler orders appear in two batches, with timing that raises the possibility that some boilers had been intended for an earlier design. In the counterfactual, Battenberg could give Churchill a speech presenting a follow-on Fisher class as the union of Fisher's dreadnought battleship and battlecruiser ideas. Naming the class after Fisher would make a programme associated with Battenberg and Jellicoe politically attractive to Fisher's admirers.
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A Fisher-class fast-battleship memorial
Battenberg could honor Fisher by attaching his name to the fast-battleship idea Fisher resisted, linking the suspected 18-inch HMS Agincourt concept to a follow-on class.