“The best looking ship of this bunch was the French cruiser Colbert. After being decommissioned, it was turned into a museum, so it was left intact when it was disarmed.”

“However, the ship needed an expensive paint job of about €500.000, and the museum had to close around 2010,” Bob explained. “[They] towed it to the ship cemetery where it was finally scrapped in 2016.”

Bob didn’t find as many artifacts on the other ships as he did on Colbert. “Some ships are totally stripped when they are disarmed, making them not so interesting to photograph.”