In this account, the Royal Navy retains prize rules even when it is not implementing awards. Under the proposed scenario, a crew capturing Scharnhorst or Gneisenau and bringing the ship into a British port could receive prize money. Churchill or Chamberlain is expected to authorize an award in that exceptional case. The payment remains a conditional prediction about the imagined capture.
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Prize money for captured German warships
Royal Navy prize rules could still reward individual crews if captured enemy warships were brought into a British port.