Warships that could have preserved a wider naval story

Which First World War-era warships most deserved preservation as museum ships?

The panel nominates ships including Warspite, Yavuz, a Kongo, an Espana, Gangut, Furious, and representative French, Italian, Austrian, and South American designs to preserve different national and technological stories.

The answers range from celebrated survivors such as Warspite and Yavuz to less obvious representatives of Spanish, Russian, French, Italian, Austrian, and South American development. Furious receives special attention because successive models aboard the ship could explain her transformation from large light cruiser to aircraft carrier. The selection criteria favor national experience, technological transition, and long service over simply collecting the largest battleships.