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No.10585 Anonymous 2026-06-15 18:24:08
HMS Implacable
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The Royal Navy towed a 150 year old Napoleonic ship-of-the-line out into the English Channel and blew it up because post-war Britain was too broke to preserve it. This unlikely event was recorded on BBC television. Rather surreal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUOBQhojEfE

The ship is flying both the French and English flags because she was initially a French vessel taken as a war trophy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Implacable_(1805)
No.10586 Anonymous 2026-06-15 18:27:17
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The sailors saluting are on the deck of a newer battleship called the Impacable.
No.11032 Anonymous 2026-07-22 09:52:49
to think that something which so much sweat was poured over was just blown up and sank... makes you want to tear up innit
No.11407 Anonymous 2026-08-05 18:39:19
Get me a big magnet and I'm going fishing... Think of the scrap!