What might a captured Bismarck have done if wartime prize money and a Polish claim put her into service as ORP Bismarck?
Short answerThe scenario imagines an aggressively employed Polish battleship whose allies would control it mainly through tight orders and restricted fuel.
NotesThe scenario begins with the possibility that Polish forces participating in Bismarck's capture might prefer the ship itself to a share of prize money. In this counterfactual, they retain the name partly to provoke Germany and employ the ship extremely aggressively against German territory or the Atlantic Wall. British and American commanders would therefore need tight schedules and limited fuel allocations to keep the ship inside coalition plans.