Scuttling
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Scuttling is the act of deliberately sinking a ship by allowing water to flow into the hull, typically by its crew opening holes in its hull.
The Monument to the Sunken Ships, dedicated to ships destroyed during the siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War, designed by Amandus Adamson
A sunken ship at Sevastopol, 1858
Merrimack alight on 20 April 1861
The wreck of USS Merrimac
USS Lexington (CV-2)
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USS Lexington, nicknamed "Lady Lex", was the name ship of her class of two aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy during the 1920s. Originally designed as a Lexington-class battlecruiser,
Scuttling
…that scuttling had made the final torpedoing redundant. After the Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway, the heavily damaged American aircraft carrier Lexington and the Japanese carriers Hiryū, Sōryū, Akagi, and Kaga were all scuttled to prevent their preservation and use by their respective enemies. In November…
An aerial view of Lexington on 14 October 1941
Lexington on the slipway, 1925
Lexington beginning the transit from her builder at Quincy to Boston Navy Yard in January 1928
Curtiss F6C fighters and Martin T3M torpedo bombers, 1928