Beautiful lady. I wonder who got the ship's bell.
I prefer it this way...I would far rather have any ship I served on be used as a target, and she can rest on the ocean floor in one piece, more or less, after having provided a valuable service to her country.
Kind of like going down fighting...:)
Far better than being broken up for scrap!
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