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.

 

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3 Responses to Wednesday

  1. Lisa B. says:

    Keep the vacation pictures coming – I’m really enjoying them. Thanks.

  2. John Alexander Wade says:

    The Naval Museum ship pictures are great! Thank you!

  3. Judy Lynch says:

    I always enjoy seeing your vacation pictures!! Some places we have been and some we hope to see someday! Thanks again for sharing!

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