What if HMS Warspite had been left where she grounded instead of being scrapped?
Short answerLocal people are expected to protect her at Prussia Cove in this counterfactual, without a specific stabilization method being proposed.
NotesWarspite's grounding at Prussia Cove is imagined as the starting point for preservation. Its location on Cornwall's south coast is contrasted with the more exposed situation imagined on a North Sea coast. The expectation expressed is that local people would build protection around the ship. The exchange is optimistic speculation about a preserved Warspite and gives no engineering assessment of how to stabilize the hull.