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HMS Rodney (mini thread); 
Who must do the hard things? Those who can.
A former chief petty officer aboard HMS Rodney scrapping his own ship. 1/3
Who must do the hard things? Those who can.
A former chief petty officer aboard HMS Rodney scrapping his own ship. 1/3
Robert Ellis, a former Chief Petty Officer aboard the Royal Navy Nelson-class battleship HMS Rodney, now holds onto her nameplate as a crane operator assisting in the process of the battleship being scrapped at the Thomas W Ward shipyard on 4 September 1950 2/3
in Inverkeithing, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom. The smoke from the burning sludge oil rises into the air from the broken hull of HMS Rodney, which had played a major role in the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck during World War 2.
