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I would say that the US is a very weird place, but then I remembered that this
is the flagship of the ~~British Navy~~ First British Sea Lord. She hasn't floated for literally 100 years.
So mostly I guess it's just that militaries are weird.
Yeah that's weird. You gotta keep your wooden boats in the water like we do. Our navy owns a forest for repairing our stupid wooden ship
When they took our wooden boat out of the water it turned out that she'd hogged by around 500mm. Which is quite a lot for a boat. In fairness, she was 150 years old by that point.
Now there's a vast system of hydraulic rams supporting her in the dry dock, to the point that they reckon she's better supported now than when she was afloat.