True, true.
Maybe they should have let this old beast be reclaimed by the deep. Haul it out to sea, set it down in the waves, and watch her go down with memorial wreaths and plaques pinned to her. If she must go, give her an honorable discharge. Maybe the creatures of the deep would have greater use for her than these people seem to...
BUT, at least that's not the way things have to end for it.