Norman Friedman's books would push Fisher toward faster, superfiring ships

What happens if Jackie Fisher receives Norman Friedman's later Royal Navy design histories while creating HMS Dreadnought?

Fisher would probably force the pace toward a 24-knot Dreadnought, superfiring turrets, and perhaps G3- or N3-like layouts earlier, while still facing the limits of contemporary gun manufacture.

Fisher would mine the histories for every later Royal Navy mistake and missed opportunity. Speed and superfiring arrangements are the most immediate changes because they can be pursued with technology near the period's reach. More radical all-forward layouts might also attract him and appear earlier in the design lineage. The books do not remove the difficulty of scaling guns and machinery, so the counterfactual remains a race between Fisher's ambition and the industrial base available to him.