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Originally Posted by Freiwillige
Operation deadlight was a British operation to scuttle the captured German submarine fleet. It was not the Germans who sunk them but the British! Would not all that metal be put to better use rebuilding England?
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Why bother? England had no lack of old WWI battleships to scrap for metal. I think the old "R" class quickly found themselves at the breakers not long after the shooting ended. Not mention the all the scrap metal at hand from a fleet far larger than she could still afford. Britian's shortages in the immediate postwar era were mostly food and finances.
Probably would have made sense to scrap the Prinz Eugen too. But with all the surplus warships in the world she ended up at a A-bomb test.