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Originally Posted by Marcus H.
The 1900s Fubuki suffered a worse fate IMO, being literally scrapped.
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With the exception of museum ships just about every ship that's not sunk is scrapped. USS Enterprise? Scrapped. Warspite? Scrapped. And so on. That's hardly a worse fate, especially since they
don't cost lives. A ship is not only the metal, it's also made up of the crew. Just asking, what's the better fate, getting blown up with 1418 men like HMS Hood or retired then scrapped with the men on board surviving like Warspite? If we make some analogy, getting sunk is like a person getting killed. Turned into a museum ship is like getting mummified. And scrapped is like being cremated after dying of natural causes.