Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "HMS Implacable; The Battleship That Served for 149 Years – And Then Got Blown Up!" video.

  1. It's not just Texas. Olympia is in pretty bad shape too.
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  2.  @davebignell773  Being put into a drydock and encased in concrete is something I think is going to be in the Texas's future. Also Olympia. The Oregon was used as an ammunition barge during WWII and scrapped in Japan in the 50s. If any warships from WWII deserved to be saved if possible it would be the Samuel B Robert's and the Johnston. At least the forward half of the Johnston has been located at over 21K/6400 meters down with her forward five inch mounts still trained to starboard.
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  3. Wasn't Brunnel's Great Western used as a hulk in Port Stanley?
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  4.  @benwilson6145  I stand corrected sir.
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  5. There is or was an old steel hulled wind jammer tied up in Honolulu harbor. There was discussion on what to do with her.
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  6. I remember seeing the news reel footage years ago and she was refered to as Old Implaccable.
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  7. The oldest ship still serving a function purpose (or parts of her) is the Mayflower iirc. Parts of her were supposedly purchased from a ship breakers yard and used in the construction of a barn in Buckinghamshire
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  8. In todays USS Navy ships that are decommissioned can see three different fates. Sold off cheap (or given) to a friendly nation. Sold off to the scrappers (I think I once saw a picture of a USN and Soviet warship doing dismembered at that place in India). Or go the way a retired warship should go. Used in a Sink Ex.
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  9. Too bad she couldn't have been towed up the Thames, fired a full broadside into the Exquecors Office and sunk from shock of her guns going off. If she had been built of sterl she would have gone to the knackers. I'm surprised they just didn't burn her to recover any iron for the scrap value.
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  10. Hit with a shovel? No. More like an axe. A very large, very dull axe. In reality, no nation can really save them all. In the grand scheme of things the desire simply isn't there. If the British government really wanted to save her they'd have found a way. Lord knows they certainly pissed away a lot more than that on projects that went nowhere.
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