Editing Ship of the line (section)

==Restorations and preservation==
[[File:Battleship1.jpg|thumb|upright|[[HMS Victory|HMS ''Victory'']] in 1884, the only surviving example of a ship of the line]]
The only original ship of the line remaining today is [[HMS Victory|HMS ''Victory'']], preserved as a museum in [[Portsmouth]] to appear as she was while under Admiral [[Horatio Nelson]] at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Although ''Victory'' has been in [[dry dock]] since the 1920s, she is still a fully commissioned warship in the Royal Navy and is the oldest commissioned warship in any navy worldwide.<ref>{{cite news |title=HMS Victory: World's oldest warship to get $25m facelift |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/05/world/europe/hms-victory |work=[[CNN.com]] |access-date=11 September 2013 |date=5 December 2011 |first=Emily |last=Smith |publisher=[[Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.]]}}</ref>

''[[Regalskeppet Vasa]]'' sank in lake Mälaren in 1628 and was lost until 1956.  She was then raised intact, in remarkably good condition, in 1961 and is presently on display at the [[Vasa Museum]] in [[Stockholm, Sweden]]. At the time she was the largest Swedish warship ever built.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Magazine |first1=Smithsonian |last2=Eschner |first2=Kat |title=The Bizarre Story of 'Vasa,' the Ship That Keeps On Giving |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bizarre-story-vasa-ship-keeps-giving-180964328/ |access-date=2022-06-03 |website=Smithsonian Magazine |language=en}}</ref><!--not sure that this is true. see list of Swedish ships of the line--> Today the ''Vasa'' Museum is the most visited museum in Sweden.{{citation needed|date=September 2013}}

The last ship-of-the-line afloat was the French ship ''[[French ship Duguay-Trouin (1800)|Duguay-Trouin]]'', renamed {{HMS|Implacable|1805|6}} after being captured by the British, which survived until 1949. The last ship-of-the-line to be sunk by enemy action was {{HMS|Wellesley|1815|6}}, which was sunk by an air raid in 1940, during the [[Second World War]]; she was briefly [[marine salvage|re-floated]] in 1948 before being broken up.