How battleship losses at Jutland might have reshaped British design

What might Britain have built if three battleships, rather than three battlecruisers, had exploded catastrophically at Jutland?

Probably a faster Queen Elizabeth-style battleship, potentially developing toward an N3-like design with 18-inch guns, rather than another 36-knot battlecruiser.

The counterfactual changes replacement priorities without rejecting capital ships. Losing battleships would encourage a fast-battleship solution around 28 to 30 knots, while battlecruiser losses produced the more urgent G3 requirement. The G3 battlecruisers belonged beside the planned N3 battleships as complementary programmes. Such powerful replacements would also make the later Washington Naval Treaty negotiations still more consequential.