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Which Royal Navy losses would still occur?

Royal Oak remains lost, while removed Mediterranean and French-base threats change many later casualties without making the fleet invulnerable.

Question

Which Royal Navy ships would still be lost in the altered war?

Short answer

Royal Oak probably remains lost, while many later Mediterranean and Atlantic losses disappear in their historical form, though other ships could still be lost in different ways.

Notes

The counterfactual does not make the Royal Navy immune to casualties. Royal Oak had already been sunk before the point of divergence and therefore remains a loss. Ships historically damaged or sunk by Italian frogmen, Mediterranean operations, or U-boats using French Atlantic bases may escape those exact fates. A fixed survivor list would be misleading because a different war would create different dangers and losses.