Preservation can depend on a ship remaining afloat until public attitudes and decision makers change. A viewer calls this the 'grandfather rule': if Warspite had lasted into the 1950s or 1960s, veterans' descendants might have been deciding her fate. That delay could have opened a route to museum status, perhaps at a Port of London berth. Under this argument, the timing of disposal mattered alongside the ship's service record.
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Why survival into the 1960s could change preservation odds
The proposed 'grandfather rule' explains how lasting into a later generation of decision-makers might have given Warspite a path to museum-ship status.