If one scrapped warship could have been saved, which should it have been?
Short answerHMS Eskimo or HMS Nubian, because each embodied an exceptional but different Tribal-class wartime record.
NotesGiven one chance to save a scrapped warship, the choice narrows to the Tribal-class destroyers HMS Eskimo and HMS Nubian. Eskimo repeatedly survived severe damage while returning to service, whereas Nubian accumulated an exceptionally wide operational record. The difficulty of choosing between them reflects two different preservation values: material survival under fire and breadth of historical participation. Either ship would have given a museum a concrete way to interpret destroyer warfare across several theatres.