High Seas Fleet

From Turtledove

The High Seas Fleet was part of the German Navy. Despite frequent exercises with the U.S. Navy prior to the Great War, actual cooperation between the two was limited to those ships caught in allied ports when the war broke out. The bulk of the High Seas Fleet spent the war in home water, despite challenging the British Royal Navy at Jutland in 1916.

In the Second Great War, however, Britain's violation of Norway's neutrality and the corresponding participation of that country in the Central Powers gives the High Seas Fleet ports on the open ocean.

Late in 1942, the British claimed to have won a major victory over the High Seas Fleet. Germany denied their claims but did not offer a counterclaim of their own major victory. In fact, the High Seas Fleet was indeed reduced in strength, as the Royal Navy was soon able to mount a significant challenge to the U.S. Navy off the coast of North America. Also, the resistance movement in Ireland required the United States to replace Germany as its main supplier of weapons.