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Originally Posted by Bill Nichols
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Originally Posted by Kapitain
did you know HMS Victory is acctualy still a commissioned warship with the royal navy ?
and so is HMS Belfast
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Yes,
though it is hardly ever covered in American Schools these days. The very Poem "Old IronSides" which is first listed in the Favorite Poems thread is why the USS Constitution was never decomissioned.
She was at an end of her service and upon her scrapping, a writer named Olver Wendell Holmes came up with a Ballad to try and stave off the ceremony. Little did he know that his Poem would so deeply move the Coast and the Naval Authority that they would hold off her Decomissioning for 208 going on 209 Years.
I for one agree, I think Naval tonnage should be sunk rather then scrapped but then again I never was one to believe in recycling. I mean, if you rename a vessel that's bad luck as is, but to melt it down and make it into a computer.
Bad Ju-Ju!