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Which ship from World War 2 should have been preserved which didn’t?
And which ship from world history?
@superbattleshipyamato from an American standpoint it has to be the Enterprise, CV-6. A shame efforts to turn it into a museum fell apart.
For Japan, it was definitely the Nagato. The last echo of a dying era of Imperial Japan. No Japanese ships from World War 2 were preserved, actually few Axis ships overall.
The Italians could have had some of their battleships also preserved.
Germany, Prinz Eugen.
@superbattleshipyamato I think the Italian heavy cruiser , Bolzano, could have been preserved . Not scrapped . I think Italy built beautiful ships in the 30s. Definitely a shame one wasn’t preserved for posterity. And a Cruiser would have been a compromise.
And then there’s the unsinkable Japanese destroyers Shigure (rest in peace that one, it fell in the end) and Yukikaze.
Yukikaze, veteran of every major battle in the Pacific.
Santa Cruz Islands, Eastern Solomons, Midway, Philippine Sea and Leyte Gulf.
It even survived what it shouldn’t have, the invincible American air armada that sunk the Yamato during Operation Ten-Go.
It even served as the flagship of the entire Taiwanese navy after the war.
It was the only ship of her class to survive. And in the end, given to Taiwan and broken up in the 1970s.
@superbattleshipyamato thanks for the info. Enjoyed reading that.
@superbattleshipyamato said in Biggest crime against ship preservation:
And which ship from world history?
From history - the Royal Charles. This English ship was captured by the Dutch in 1667, but it turned out to be unsuitable for the shallow Dutch coastal waters and was then turned into a tourist attraction. The English were far from happy about that situation, and the Dutch decided to scrap the ship after all in response to their complaints, keeping only a small part. But since the nations would soon be at war again anyway, they might just as well have kept the whole ship.
Whether it would have survived the centuries is quite another matter, but how cool would it have been to have an original 1655 ship of the line today!
Yeah, I read about that, the flagship of the English fleet captured last minute in the war. We’ll have to settle with HMS Victory instead.