Wonder if they used the Ark Royal for my suggestion if the name alone wouldn't draw in bigger crowds. I know she never went to the Falklands ( still being built ) but with her name surely she could be used like that.
Corporate days , a conference centre ( hell she's got a big enough hanger for 3 or 4 big rooms ) , concerts , hell it wouldn't take too much to make a go of it surely.
You make a good point about the USA preserving their historic ships Colin , I don't know if a single Battleship was scrapped after WW2 I think all of them apart from the New Jersey ( she's still in the mothball fleet at the insistence of the Marine Corps I think ) are museum ships but I think quite a lot of them are in fairly poor condition , guess funding is as big a problem over there as here at times.