He told me that in the early 50s as a young man he had got a load of teak off Warspite and built himself a garden shed
I read a tale that Rolls Royce at the end of the war were getting rid of engine transport cases to staff who put their names down on a list for them, so they could convert them into sheds, one chap was disgusted when his new shed was dropped off to find it still contained a new Merlin!