Would sinking Bismarck alone have preserved Rodney?

If Rodney had sunk Bismarck alone, would she have become a museum ship?

The narrative would have made preservation much more plausible, but postwar policy still makes survival uncertain.

If Rodney had avenged Hood by defeating Bismarck alone soon afterward, that story would have given her a compelling claim to preservation. Turning the battleship into a museum would still depend on the postwar government. The very limited preservation of major wartime ships makes survival uncertain. The strength of the victory narrative could nevertheless have helped secure it.