Seeing her out of her slip is kind of weird. She was accompanied on either side by tug boats, like an elderly person escorted by nurses or family members fearful they may fall over.
There’s also a statue of George Washington in England. Except the US shipped a bunch of dirt all the way across the Atlantic from Virginia so he would technically not be standing on British soil.
Small correction:
The HMS Victory is the flagship of the First Sea Lord.
The current Royal Navy Fleet Flagship is the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales.
I would say that the US is a very weird place, but then I remembered that this
is the flagship of the British Navy. She hasn’t floated for literally 100 years.
So mostly I guess it’s just that militaries are weird.
but what about ceremonial anime swords in the US military?
I’d like to know more
The USS Constitution is still fully crewed, floats, and occasionally fires a few cannon shots.
Keeping history around isn’t weird. Though I do think it should be contextualized.
Ah, I’m mostly joking. Victory is a really cool museum, almost as cool as the wreck of the Mary Rose that’s in displayed in a building next to her.
Her nearest competition was decommissioned in 2015.
Seeing her out of her slip is kind of weird. She was accompanied on either side by tug boats, like an elderly person escorted by nurses or family members fearful they may fall over.
US Navy sails the Constitution up to a Russian submarine.
Fires full broadside.
Refuses to elaborate.
Leaves.
There’s also a statue of George Washington in England. Except the US shipped a bunch of dirt all the way across the Atlantic from Virginia so he would technically not be standing on British soil.
Humans do weird shit just to make a statement.
Dracula did the same when he moved to England
But is Dracula twelve stories high and made of radiation?
Is George Washington!?😨
“What do we do with all this rubble and old dirt?”
“Ship it to the UK and call it patriotism”
Militaries see a lot of value in convincing their members that they’ll be remembered after dying.
Some good things have happened because people sacrificed themselves for the greater good.
Do I wish this wasn’t necessary? Fucking of course.
But history doesn’t repeat itself so much as humans just don’t change.
Small correction: The HMS Victory is the flagship of the First Sea Lord. The current Royal Navy Fleet Flagship is the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales.
Is she not beautiful? Do her curves offend your insecure masculine sensibilities?
She’s too beautiful. So beautiful in fact, that I am now banned from Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
For shame, for she has many suitors but not nearly enough who will polish her portholes
I somehow never considered that there were literal flagships.
The USS Enterprise (pretty much any of them, including nonfiction) have been flagships.