As we made our way to the Mary Rose museum featured in Saturday’s blog post we passed HMS Victory and were surprised to see that she was sporting different colours than we had seen on our previous visit. Initially we wondered if she was in the middle of being repainted and what we were seeing [...]
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The Mary Rose Exposed
On my first visit to the Mary Rose in in September 2014 she was behind perspex as she was being dried out as part of the final stages of work undertaken to preserve her. The view of her was to some extent obscured by the tubes that were in place to dry her out.
When I [...]
21 Comments CherryPie on Nov 19th 2016
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Winchester – Day Two
The breakfast was every bit as good as we remembered from our first visit. The breakfast room was rather full due to the wedding guests from the day before. Thankfully the kids had worn themselves out and were quiet during breakfast.
We set off to Portsmouth to visit the Mary Rose Museum. The journey went smoothly [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Oct 26th 2016
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The Mary Rose
In a dry dock behind HMS Victory is the new Mary Rose museum. The building was purpose built to house the remains the flagship of King Henry VIII which capsized and sank in the Solent in 1545. The museum is very well done; the remains of the Mary Rose are on its starboard side and [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 10th 2015
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it – we are going back from whence we came.
John F. Kennedy
20 Comments CherryPie on Feb 8th 2015
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Figurehead of HMS Warrior 1860
Warrior’s original figurehead has ended up at Fleet HQ, Northwood, London, only to crumble beyond repair sometime in the 1960s. The new ’spirit of Warrior’, carved by two Isle of Wight craftsmen, weighed 2 tons and like the original was almost 4 metres (12 feet) high. In February 1985, it was hoisted aboard and attached [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 7th 2015
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HMS Warrior 1860
HMS Warrior was the world’s first ocean going, iron-hulled, armoured warship – the largest, fastest and most powerful of the time. Launched on 29 December 1860, Warrior rendered all other warships obsolete overnight. She never fired a shot in anger, simply because she was too powerful for any other ship to think of challenging her. [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 6th 2015
