A viewer proposes repurposing an uneconomic vessel and commissioning an inquiry into what went wrong. Depot or accommodation duty could preserve limited value without pretending that the ship remained an effective combatant. A formal study could identify design-process failures before they were repeated in another class. The cost of that investigation was small compared with another failed ship or the reputational damage of discovering the weakness in combat. The logic is sound, though political incentives often resist such candid institutional learning.
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Learning from a failed warship before combat exposes it
An unsuccessful ship can become a depot or training asset while a formal study protects the navy from repeating the design failure.