Some more shots from our motor into Portsmouth Harbour earlier in May.
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| The entrance to Portsmouth Harbour. Ft Monkton on the port bow, Southsea Castle almost dead ahead. The actual entrance in directly in front of the Spinnaker Tower. |
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| Gosport, the former RN submarine base. Dad spent many days here in his navy service. There are two tall ships, a Swedish barkentine in the foreground and the TS Royalist beyond. |
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| HM Dockyard from the water. HMS Warrior and HMS Illustrious are most obvious in this view. The weather was cold and grey that day. |
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| HMS Warrior (1860) the early ironclad frigates were certainly beautiful ships. I didn't make it on board Warrior this time around, but I've been on her at least twice and she is well worth the visit. |
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| HMS Illustrious due to be retired later in 2014. A "D" class destroyer is ahead of the Lusty. |
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| The stern of the Lusty. You can see the masts of Nelson's Victory and a bit of her starboard gun ports behind. Victory's topmasts have been struck else she would be more prominent. |
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| From left to right, Duke class, D class, Illustrious |
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| More RN ships in port. It was the May bank holiday weekend so all ships were in port to give the crews shore leave. |
In that first picture - that's the Round Tower you can see directly ahead (dates from 1415, 1495 in current format).. Southsea Castle is about a mile to the east, and has the light house on top.... this is good... http://www.fortified-places.com/portsmouth/ My dad was a submariner, I did most of my first solo sailing trips from HMS Dolphin, and have many memories of visiting the submarines he was on (O and P diesel boats)....
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the info and the link.
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