The nineteenth-century Warspite would be a revealing museum ship

Which nineteenth-century warship would you bring into the present as a museum ship?

HMS Warspite, because the earlier ship's design would reward direct study and preservation.

The choice for recovery and preservation is the nineteenth-century HMS Warspite. Her design would reward close examination, while restoring the earlier Warspite instead of the better-known later ship would leave one fellow historian both pleased and frustrated. This is a personal preservation choice, not a claim that the vessel was the single most historically important possible survivor.