The Wash as a base for an enlarged battlecruiser force

After German surface raiders are cleared, a force of as many as fifteen battlecruisers could return to home waters and overwhelm existing berthing space. The Wash, the inlet bordered by Skegness, King's Lynn, and Boston, was a historically considered basing area that could suit this larger fleet. Its open area would give the ships more room to anchor and conduct gunnery work without concentrating every unit at the northern bases. The shallow approaches would require dredging and naval infrastructure. The wartime development of Scapa Flow shows that such engineering was possible, although the alternate base remains a possibility rather than a certain choice.