Wednesday

The Royal Naval Museum in Portsmouth Harbor is a must see if you’re into history and navy stuff. I mentioned the HMS Warrior yesterday. It’s 420 feet long, iron clad, with both sail and steam. Under sail alone she could do 13kn, under steam 14kn, and under both 17kn. It carried 40 68 pounder guns and was manned by 50 officers and 656 crewmen.

This is the captain’s bunk.

His dinette:

Winches to raise the anchors..

This is the boiler room. It was a bad job. My father was a boilermaker on the USS Arkansas during WWI.

More on the museum tomorrow.