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Old 25th Dec 2020, 20:09
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Originally Posted by happybiker
Sorry for the thread drift but I agree with you our history of preservation is poor, I am still wondering how we did not preseve HMS Vanguard.
Vanguard was a post WW2 ship that really saw little service, and just because it was the last doesn't make it the 'one that got away'.

While we can't save/keep everything, we should have preserved one battleship, and that really should have been KGV, with it's WW2 service, and given it wasn't scrapped until 1957, that's perhaps far more of a travesty.
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