HMS Howe was never completed for the battle-fleet role envisioned for Victoria's enlarged sister. The hull instead found a long second life as the school ship Impregnable and under the name Bulwark. This wooden ship, never commissioned as a warship, remained in service longer than some dreadnoughts. After her 1921 sale, timbers from Howe were reused in the interior of Liberty's London store. An overtaken capital-ship project retained institutional and material value far beyond its intended technological moment.
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HMS Howe outlasted dreadnoughts without serving as a warship
Victoria's unfinished sister Howe became a school ship and survived in Royal Navy service long enough to outlast some dreadnoughts.