>The HMS SURPRISE from Master and Commander is in such disrepair that the museum where she’s docked has decided to permanently close the exhibit.>There is nothing to be done to save her. According to the museum, it would cost more than $25 million.>The exhibit closes in August 2027.
>>221627712Well wooden ships either rot or you take them outside of the water for exhibition if the size allows it
>>221627712fug. ive been putting it off but i think i may finally make the drive down to san diego to visit her before the opportunity is gone for good
Just put her on land then, cant be that hard
Permanently dry-docking a ship like this is a bad idea. That wooden hull was made to be in the water with consistent pressure of the water on it. You put it in a dry-dock for too long and hull will start to deform. HMS Victory ran into that kind of thing. Some rich nerd needs to spend the money to fix it properly or we all need to accept that it is going to be broken up shortly after it closes.
Surprise! *poot*
>>221627712He didn't float so good
>The replica HMS Surprise (originally launched in 1970 as the frigate HMS Rose) was built by Smith and Rhuland Shipyard in Nova Scotia for roughly $250,000How did things get this bad? The ship was build new in 1970 for $250,000. Today it would $25,000,000 just to repair it. 100x price increase in 50 years. The median salary in 1970 was $10k. So if wages had matched inflation, we should be making $1M a year now.
>>221627712what if they froze the water around the ship. 300iq
>>221628070Vile antisemitism like this has no place on this subreddit.
>>221628070shit always cost more to repair than to build fresh. currently buying a house and home insurance seems to think it would cost x3 what the property is worth to rebuild
>>221628070someone posited that there are petty, personal reasons for wanting to shutter the museum because it is by far their most popular attraction and it isn't even a real historical ship like the rest of the museum's vessels.
>>221627953Whatever course of action is taken, they should choose the lesser of two weevils.
it's a replica ship that was a movie prop, def not worth $25,000,000 to fix something with no actual historical value beyond a film. If you have that much money you might as well just make a new one anyway if you're actually interested in that sort of thing.
most large wooden boats are just pulled ashore and left to rot, that's literally 100% of all wooden boats end of they aren't sunk. Return to soil
it's a prop that's probably not even sea-worthyit's unfortunate, but hardly a tragedy
>>221628107Yeah, uhhhh, bad things happen if you do that...
>>221628396NOOOOO THE JEWS ARE DESTROYING HISTORY
>>221627712The sun and the salty ocean air and water are no joke and wreck everything given enough time.
>making a thing out of wood>cry when it rots and gets destroyedDo Americans really? Do they not know how to make things out of brick and cement?
>>221628070>doesn't know that everyone on 4chan is a 10x over millionare
>>221628177>subredditgo back wagie, your funko pops are getting dusty
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>>221627712if Manchester United can pay 60 million for some shitty football player sure someone can pay 25 million to safe thisThe british royal family probably has billions anyway
>>221628070So it's not even a real ship then? Just sink it and build another one
>>221627712Keeping a car or land based vehicle from a movie for 25 years makes sense but a boat? Anyone could tell you that's a terrible idea. I'm surprised they even bothered to try in the first place
>>221628821It's because it was an accurate recreation of a ship from the era. Extremely useful as a museum piece.
>>221628821The second happiest day in a man's life is when he buys a boatThe happiest is when he sells it
>>221627953If it is supported properly, dry docking is absolutely the best route for preservation. The Cutty Sark in London was absolutely fine in a dry dock until some fucktards burned it down and it had to be rebuilt.
>>221628272Regardless of it that is true or not, a ship like that being built for anything under a million if not several millions is insane compared to today. You'd hardly get a replica lifeboat for such a price.
>>221627953Chop it up and make it into furniture. That worked out pretty well for the HMS Resolute.
>>221627712Can we meme Elon into buying it to be his private yacht. The HMS Chud.
>>221627953>Some rich nerd needs to spend the money to fix it properlyIf this got any traction on twitter it could easily be brought tor Elon's attention. Given the political climate where he's tweeting about the odyssey every day, i'm unironically certain he'd step in to save the master and commander ship
mostly these sorts of things get chopped and stuck on a barge
>>221628107>>221628463funny enough, they found HMS Terror in "terror bay" which was apparently not named for the ship. the ice cracked the hull and caused her to sink straight down, meaning she's in great condition at the bottom of the bay
