The unnamed Siamese survivor was struck from the list in 1959 and was not preserved. Its disposal removed an opportunity to retain a British destroyer design from the First World War. Relations between Britain and Thailand complicate the suggested preservation counterfactual. A sufficiently generous British offer is suggested as one possible way the ship could have survived.
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A lost opportunity to preserve a First World War destroyer
Disposal of the unnamed Siamese survivor prompts a preservation argument about the loss of a rare British destroyer design.