The Royal Navy towed a 150 year old Napoleonic ship-of-the-line out into the English Channel and blew it up because post-war Britain was too broke to preserve it. This unlikely event was recorded on BBC television. Rather surreal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUOBQhojEfE
The ship is flying both the French and English flags because she was initially a French vessel taken as a war trophy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Implacable_(1805)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUOBQhojEfE
The ship is flying both the French and English flags because she was initially a French vessel taken as a war trophy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Implacable_(1805)