Battenberg's Naval Intelligence experience might encourage earlier construction of Flower-class sloops. He is also credited with informal ideas that contributed to monitor production. Operations supporting Flanders provide the setting for those bombardment ships. In this counterfactual, small-warship development could therefore change alongside the capital-ship programme.
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Earlier Flower sloops and monitors for Flanders
Intelligence-led procurement might bring Flower-class sloops forward and develop informal bombardment ideas into monitors.