HMS Nelson, is there more than one?

[mrbeast]

Originally Posted by StarFox

HMS Nelson and the HMS Rodney were the only ships of the class built. both were scrapped after WWII (england did not save one WWII Era battleship...what a shame)

Dammned shame that all the RN's BBs were scrapped even Vanguard which only completed just after the war IIRC. Problem was the country was bankrupt, BBs were obsolete and we needed the cash that all that steel could reach on the open market so bye bye BBs.

Apparently HMS Warspite didn't want to go to the breakers yard, managed to ground herself and refused to be refloated, so they broke her up in situ. Always thought that was a sad story, almost as if the old battle wagon was alive somehow.

[andylegate]

It is rather a shame that not one piece of that era was saved. But the circumstances are understandable. I feel fortunate that here in my country, were were lucky enough to not have that worry and were able to save (and in fact, even continue to use) many of our battle ships for decades afer WWII.

[bookworm_020]

Originally Posted by mrbeast

Dammned shame that all the RN's BBs were scrapped even Vanguard which only completed just after the war IIRC. Problem was the country was bankrupt, BBs were obsolete and we needed the cash that all that steel could reach on the open market so bye bye BBs.

Apparently HMS Warspite didn't want to go to the breakers yard, managed to ground herself and refused to be refloated, so they broke her up in situ. Always thought that was a sad story, almost as if the old battle wagon was alive somehow.

HMS Warspite should have been saved if any battleship deserved to.

SMS Goeben was another ship that deserved to be saved. Almost 50 years in Active service, yet ended up scarped desipte being offered to the West German Government at a next to nothing price!

[StarFox]

USS Enterprise....if any other US Navy ship was to be saved, that would be almost everyones first choice. she fought in almost every major battle during the whole war, from Pearl Harbor to Toyko Bay

[mrbeast]

Yes the big E should have been saved. There was, at the time, a lot of public upset at the decision to have her scrapped IIRC. There were some vessels saved from the wartime RN most notably HMS Belfast which is now a museum ship (run by the Imperial War museum) on the Thames in London. Apart from that there is a destroyer and a frigate still extant AFAIK. The frigate is currently owned by Egypt, plans are afoot to purchase her for the nation.

But overal considering Britain's naval past its not much to have survived.

BTW Belfast is execellent and well worth a visit if any of you ever plan on going to London.

[Jimbuna]

Possibly the last surviving UK destroyer :hmm:

http://www.hmscavalier.org.uk/

[Captain Nemo]

Going back to the original topic, a similar thing has happened to me in my latest career. In one patrol I sunk HMS Rodney amongst a convoy of merchants and escorts. In a subsequent patrol I engaged another convoy to find HMS Rodney once again. The difference this time was that she was the only escort for the whole convoy. Needless to say, I sunk her and went on to annilate most of the convoy. My best patrol yet with 136,888 GRT to my credit.

Nemo