Warspite remained the subject of museum-ship proposals after her guns fell silent. Preservation planning under Churchill contrasted with the incoming government's reluctance to accept the expense. Officials reasoned that another battleship in better condition could be retained later to represent the type or the class. That choice transferred both cost and responsibility to a future administration, which never made the expected preservation decision. Approval to sell Warspite for scrap followed in July 1946, and her guns were removed at Portsmouth before the tow to the breakers began in April 1947.
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Postwar economy defeats the Warspite museum proposal
Officials rejected preserving Warspite and assumed a later government would save a better battleship, leaving Britain without the promised representative.