An English navy without the Norman Conquest

What would happen to the English navy if the Norman Conquest never occurred?

Coastal ship obligations could survive, but political fragmentation and the loss of Norman continental connections would reshape when and why a permanent navy formed.

England already had ports and communities obliged to provide ships, but these obligations did not amount to a continuous professional navy in the later sense. The panel associates a more lasting force with Edward I, leaving roughly two centuries of intervening political development after the conquest. Without that conquest, powerful regional elites such as those in Northumbria could change the kingdom's survival or boundaries before a comparable navy emerged. England would still need naval forces, but their institutions would develop within a different state. Removing the Angevin Empire would also change both the crown's revenues and its overseas liabilities.