Counting the fall of France as a loss of coalition warships reveals its naval scale. The Allies effectively lost nine battleships, including two fast battleships, and nineteen cruisers, including seven heavy cruisers and a minelayer. About seventy destroyers and roughly eighty submarines also ceased to be available. No single battle sank that fleet, but the loss of usable hulls is assessed as larger than any one wartime naval defeat. The counterfactual reverses that loss while leaving the Axis without corresponding reinforcements.
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France's collapse was the Allies' largest single warship loss
Counting ships removed from Allied control reframes June 1940 as a naval disaster on the scale of nine battleships, nineteen cruisers, seventy destroyers, and about eighty submarines.