Fisher's Baltic strategy required a practical way to seal the Kiel Canal. One proposal called for a submarine to carry mines into the waterway. The more likely Royal Navy method in this assessment would have sent old cruisers into the canal at speed with heavy explosive charges, following the logic of other First World War blocking operations. The larger strategic threat depended on an executable denial mission.
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How Britain might block the Kiel Canal
The Baltic scheme depended on a practical canal-denial operation, with mines or sacrificial cruisers proposed as ways to close the Kiel Canal.