Morning Rob.
What an eloquent diatribe on a subject which I had hitherto taken to be a mundane matter. Whilst we have waxed lyrical, and in some cases not so lyrical about the beauty of the ships, and even how to display them, the transportation has hitherto been merely a mundane matter of safely getting them from A to B. Your post has opened up a new possibility for a whole new debate. One of which I feel unqualified on which to comment, as Philistine like, I keep all my ships in the boxes, and use a B&Q case for transportation.
I am sure, though, that some of our shipmates will be only too happy to regale you with a myriad of yarns about how they go about the task of display vs sympathetic storage.

I look forward to discovering if any of them have the same esoteric cast as your own on this challenge.
Rob.