Comments by "1IbramGaunt" (@1IbramGaunt) on "HMS Implacable; The Battleship That Served for 149 Years – And Then Got Blown Up!" video.

  1.  @brucematthews6417  well there's also HMS Trincomalee up in Hartlepool
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  2. Yes, there was another choice, make her a damn museum on dry land, HMS Victory ring a bell?!
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  3.  @johnladuke6475  the funds became available later, sure we were skint in the 40's and 50's but we did get plenty of money for this stuff later on, they could've just put her in an old RAF hangar or something, anything big enough to house her and shelter her from the elements, and perhaps also coated her with some sort of wood-preservative, and then just left her there until the money and resources were available for a more thorough restoration
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  4.  @davebignell773  Ok you're right, I just wish you weren't
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  5. Victory's in no condition for it, but HMS Trincomalee could, she's the oldest British warship still afloat and seaworthy
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  6. ​@MattCellaneous tell you what, how about this, why don't you guys give us the replica ship "HMS Surprise" which I believe is still over there, the ship used for the movie "Master & Commander - The Far Side Of The World", and we'll rename her HMS Rose, after the real historical frigate she's based on, commission her as a real warship (ceremonially speaking of course), and we'll make that our equivalent of your USS Constitution haha
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  7. ​​​ @MattCellaneous  as for HMS Victory though nah sorry but she'll never sail again, incredible a sight as that would be; even if we could find the money somehow to restore her fully, including putting her masts, bowsprit and figurehead back, her hull is barely holding together as is, and that's while she's on land, and with all sorts of bracing struts and preservative chemicals in place
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  8. Everyone knows how to make another human and indeed we are vastly overpopulated with the damn things, but a 74 that fought at Trafalgar and survived nearly 200 years is not a regular find
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  9.  @davebignell773  saving HMS Belfast didn't seem to be a problem, nor did saving any of those other preserved museum-ships you mention, and frankly most surviving ships as old as Warspite would be today have far less incredible gloriousness to their names than Warspite did yet they survive and she doesn't. Was saving just one more ship too much to ask for the penny-pinchers? Despite the fact they'd already scrapped dozens of other WW2 warships? you would've thought just one being kept aside, put out of the way somewhere for later restoration, would make no difference whatsoever, doubt her steel could've been worth much
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  10. I wonder if it's possible to raise and then restore any of the sunken still mostly-intact battleships on the bottom, alá the movie "Raise The Titanic" haha, or indeed the real-life raising of 'Mary Rose' or 'Wasa'? I don't mean the ones that're war graves, they should be left to lie in peace for all time of course; I'm talking about the possibility of raising one of the battleships that went down with no-one aboard, like with the German fleet that scuttled itself at Scapa Flow
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  11. Reproductions directly copied from the original perhaps?
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  12. depends what you call a "British" battleship doesn't it, yeah she was built here but she was paid for, used, fought & died in and honoured for it all by the Japanese
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  13.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  hahaha while you're at it, look for my keys will you
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  14.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  do you think it'd be possible to raise whatever's left of her, alá the 'Mary Rose'?
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  15.  @EdNashsMilitaryMatters  well yeah, didn't think she'd exactly be seaworthy still haha, but that hole underneath aside she WAS still remarkably intact when she went down- they really built those old wooden ships to last
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  16. I have a better question, why not scrap YOU and donate your organs to the Chinese
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  17. ​​​​​​ @MattCellaneous  as for HMS Trincomalee she may have been built in India by Indians from Indian materials, but India WAS very much a British colony at the time mind haha, and she was designed, commissioned, commanded & sailed by Brits in the Royal Navy for her whole active life; she might be built of Indian Teak rather than English Oak but she's still a Leda-class 5th-rate sailing frigate, the last intact and full-rigged of her kind (not counting her unfortunate sister-ship the never-rigged roofed-over HMS Unicorn), and even though she sadly never got to see action she's still a proud part of Britain's naval legacy and, fittingly, now the centrepiece of the National Museum Of The Royal Navy
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