>>65361243
>not posting the poem
For shame.

>>65361243
Scrapping the Warspite was one of the biggest acts of shame and kikery in British history. It'd be like the US scrapping Texas.

>>65361271
Shame? It was murder! Warspite had a machine spirit I tell you!

>>65361257
Seeing as OP won't do it, guess it's up to me again:

You say you have no subject
And your brushes all have dried;
But come to Marazion
At the ebbing of the tide.

And look you out to seaward,
Where my Lady battle scarred
Hugs the rock that is more welcome,
Than the shameful breakers yard.

Paint her there upon the sunset
In her glory and despair,
With the diadem of victory
Still in flower upon her hair.

Let her whisper as she settles
Of her blooding long ago,
In the mist than mingles Jutland
With the might of Scapa Flow.

Let her tell you, too, of Narvik
With its snowy hills, and then
Of Matapan, Salerno
And the shoals of Walcheren;
And finally of Malta,
When along the purple street
Came in trail the Roman Navy
To surrender at her feet.

Of all these honours conscious,
How could she bear to be
Delivered to the spoiler
Or severed from the sea ?
So hasten then and paint her
In the last flush of her pride
On the rocks of Marazion,
At the ebbing of the tide.

Why are you assblasted over some ship?

>>65361368
You do not belong here.

>>65361368
It's a first world thing (you) wouldn't understand

>>65361368
Get the fuck out faggot.

>>65361368
Warspite was a 33,000 ton destroyer. If there was a fight she'd find it.
They eventually tried to take her old bones to the breakers and she was having none of it.
Fought them to the end.

>>65361414
>british retards cant figure out how to tie a knot or patch a hole, multiple attempts in a row
>erm the ship is haunted by le british ship spirit or something
do you people ever get tired of being faggots

>It's a warriortard outs himself in seconds post
Oh no no no

>>65361243
o7

>>65361257
indeed

>>65361354
bless you

>>65361448
Warspite was a thing. The Navy was just along for the ride.

>>65361448
Do you ever get tired of shitting in the street?

>>65361243
Even on her death bed she's beautiful

>>65361271
The ship was completely knackered by the end of the war. It took a Fritz-X bomb in '44 and was never the same after that, not to mention general wear-and-tear from being a pre-war battleship involved in intensive combat for extended periods. They just couldn't preserve it even if they wanted to.

>>65361388
Clearly the 'first world' didn't give enough of a shit about some ship to preserve her, since the 'first world' deemed her scrappable and Built For Big Breaker Yards. Anon simply has the same opinion as the 'first world' you speak of.

>>65363349
>Thirdie talks about itself in the third person
Oh no no no

At a time when even newly built battleships and aircraft carriers were becoming white elephants following the end of the war, perhaps even renowned, battle-hardened vessels were viewed as nothing more than candidates for the scrapyard.
The United States, too, was unable to preserve Enterprise.

>>65363404
I live in an actual first world country. You know, the kind that actually has battleships preserved? That kind of First World. The real First World. Not the fake kind of 'first world' that talks a lot of hot shit about taking 300 years to build a naval tradition right before scrapping both the navy and the tradition at the breakers, aka your curry-flavored 'first world'.

>>65363505
We're (almost) the last country in the world with preserved battleships and WW2 carriers, and we definitely have the most preserved battleships, because our closest competitor only has one pre-dreadnought preserved. Hell, we're the last country in the world with a proper dreadnought still afloat. The brits could have preserved one of the KGVs or something like that. Hell, even the Nips still have the Mikasa. The fact that the brits haven't managed to save a single one of their WW2 capital ships is insane. No carriers, no battleships, not even a heavy cruiser for fuck's sake. They've got, what, Belfast? And that's it. The only waves Britannia rules today are the migrant waves, and even then they can't really rule those.

>>65361243
Warspite absolutely fucked.

This ship is a tier 6 ships in wows, it has an accurate 2ndary 152 mm battery so you can take the 2ndary battery extended range and improved accuracy skills for your commander.
Dont take 2nd battery upgrade, use main gun accuracy upgrade because the guns are pretty good for its tier.

IMHO Repulse or Renown is better for ranked if you are able to use dynamic gun sight for long range shots as they have battlecruiser dispersion. They are not as durable as Warspite though.

If JUST the museum ships and mothball fleet were activated by magic, and the actual navy disappeared, the US would STILL fucking mog the world.

It's hard to truly comprehend how fucking broke the UK was after WW2. They couldn't afford to save anything.

>>65363529
If you want to be real about, the UK was completely economically fucked for years after WW2 and literally couldn't afford to preserve them. Even the USA's museum ships require private donations for acquisition and continued upkeep because of their expense.

>>65363941
A thread every couple years... "WHY DIDN'T THEY SAVE XXXXXXXX SHIP!!!"
Because then USA look like grandmother's attic complete with 1949 motor oil "could still be fine!".