The upper floor of ‘The Victory Gallery’ houses the ‘Spirit of Figurehead’ display which showcases a wonderful collection of ship figureheads from the late 18th century.
Archive for the tag 'Portsmouth Dockyard'
Filed under Art, Holidays, Winchester 2014
Figureheads Galore
16 Comments CherryPie on Jan 21st 2015
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Winchester 2014
Figurehead of HMS Trafalgar
HMS Trafalgar:
Built as a First Rate of 120 guns at Woolwich and completed in 1841, 2694 tons. Took part in the bombardment of Sebastopol in 1854, being towed to her position in the line by the RETRIBUTION (paddle).
Converted to a two deck screw ship of 90 guns at Chatham in 1858-59 and in 1873 was [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 20th 2015
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Winchester 2014
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
I invite you to read my post about my visit to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard on the Broad Oak Magazine blog.
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 19th 2015
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Winchester 2014
Portsmouth Command Field Gun Crew
THIS BRONZE STATUE AND FIELD GUN
COMMEMORATE THOSE MEN FROM PORTSMOUTH
COMMAND WHO COMPETED IN THE ANNUAL FIELD
GUN COMPETITION AT THE ROYAL TOURNAMENT
AND TRAINED AT “ROYAL NAVAL BARRACKS”
PORTSMOUTH FROM 1947 UNTIL CESSATION OF
THE TOURNAMENT IN AUGUST 1999
THE PANELS AROUND THE PLINTH DEPICT THE
HISTORY OF FIELD GUN AND COMMEMORATE THE
BRAVERY OF THE BLUE JACKETS WHO TOOK PART IN
THE [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 17th 2015
Filed under Art, Holidays, Winchester 2014
Figurehead of HMS Benbow
The figurehead is of the bust of Vice Admiral John Benbow, the commander-in-chief during the War of Spanish Succession in the West Indies where he subsequently died from his wounds in 1702. He wears a wig and cravat as shown in contemporary portraits. The figure wears armour and the lower part is draped in red [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 16th 2015
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Winchester 2014
Winchester – Day Seven
We returned to Portsmouth to carry on where we left off the previous day. We started off with a visit to the Royal Marines Museum, which is included in the entrance ticket to Portsmouth Docks but situated a short way from the dockyard itself. It was thundering as we arrived and we didn’t quite make [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 9th 2014
Filed under Anecdotes, Heritage, Holidays, Winchester 2014
Winchester – Day Six
Portsmouth Dockyard is very large and has so many attractions that we planned to visit on more than one day. On the first visit we visited Nelson’s ship, HMS Victory, first. It was interesting and a lot more compact inside than I had imagined. Even I had to duck my head at times. I found [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 8th 2014
