not the best source I know, but a friend who was in the sea cadets around 1959, said areas of the ship were closed off and she was in a state of preservation for most of her life. Even as flagship she was too expensive needed too many men to actually put to sea. So a smaller ship was used by the Adml commanding on exercises to act the part of fleet flagship!
freeze @ 5:19 and go to full screen. i wonder if these two lads, here in the prime of their Royal Navy manhood, are still alive and if so do they realise their youthful selves are still to be seen on You Tube???.
I believe the US has preserved every one of the Iowa class, all we've got is a light cruiser, surely as the last of her kind she should have been saved as a memorial?
Magnificent ship it was, i have a model of her, i didn't knew the story before seeing this. By the way, does someone know the background music playing in 7:55, i've heard on a couple of newsreels of the time.
A "volunteer" pool might be able to re-build an equivalent "clone" of this battleship. Lighter materials, tube steel and aluminum alloys (w. reinforced epoxy / metal mesh) . Not saying it would be as formidable as the original; but it could be "rebuilt" on the cheap. Missile batteries have made heavy turrets obsolete, but something equivalent might be cooked up. Just sayin' ( trying help, so to speak ).
Making the the crew stand there watching their ship being broken up is absolutely criminal.
not the best source I know, but a friend who was in the sea cadets around 1959, said areas of the ship were closed off and she was in a state of preservation for most of her life. Even as flagship she was too expensive needed too many men to actually put to sea. So a smaller ship was used by the Adml commanding on exercises to act the part of fleet flagship!
"Raw material's recklessly squandered! - a definite curse of the 21st century"!
should have preserved this magnificent ship on Thames.
Лучше Warspite.
Why? It would have been better suited at home on The Clyde where she was built.
This ship or one of the King George V Class battleships should have been kept as a museum ship.
So sad. My uncle was serving on the Vanguard during the voyage with the Royal Family in 1947
3:30 The duty officer forgot to tell the helmsman "Left hand down a bit" (The Navy Lark). 2:30 What a handsome ship it was.
freeze @ 5:19 and go to full screen. i wonder if these two lads, here in the prime of their Royal Navy manhood, are still alive and if so do they realise their youthful selves are still to be seen on You Tube???.
What a waste, we should have saved her as a reminder that Britannia did once rule the waves. ☹️🇬🇧🏴
Such a saddening thing to see.
A crime she was never preserved the last of her kind .A least the Americans preserved some of theirs.
there used for ghost hunting programes a lot ships
people hering voices seeing aapertions of ghosts dead sailors
Americans didn’t just preserve theirs they modernised them and kept bringing them back for war where they were very effective
Built for a war that was over when launched and then scrapped after a short life.
@Julien Bryan so what has she being up to
I believe the US has preserved every one of the Iowa class, all we've got is a light cruiser, surely as the last of her kind she should have been saved as a memorial?
Every Iowa class, at least one of the South Dakota class (USS Alabama), and USS Texas of the New York class among possibly others.
Magnificent ship it was, i have a model of her, i didn't knew the story before seeing this.
By the way, does someone know the background music playing in 7:55, i've heard on a couple of newsreels of the time.
Anyone know what the melody at 3:55 is called?
Imagine the pollution caused doing that in those days
How did this lady get sent to the scrap heap? What a shame. :(
A "volunteer" pool might be able to re-build an equivalent "clone" of this battleship. Lighter materials, tube steel and aluminum alloys (w. reinforced epoxy / metal mesh) . Not saying it would be as formidable as the original; but it could be "rebuilt" on the cheap. Missile batteries have made heavy turrets obsolete, but something equivalent might be cooked up. Just sayin' ( trying help, so to speak ).
They really should limit internet access in lunatic asylums.
Heatlh and Safety Niightmare !