Porthsmouth

Our Summer holiday 2014, Porthsmouth pictures
HMS Warrior Warrior, launched in 1860, was the pride of Queen Victoria's fleet. Powered by steam and sail, she was the largest, fastest and most powerful ship of her day and had a profound effect on naval architecture. Warrior was, in her time, the ultimate deterrent. Yet within a few years she was obsolete. : H.M.S. Warrior, Portsmouth, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Figurehead HMS Warrior's imposing figurehead is a Greek warrior holding a shield and sword. Current one is third, all have been identical. : H.M.S. Warrior, Portsmouth, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Ropes Rope neatly curled on the deck : H.M.S. Warrior, Portsmouth, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Upper deck wheel Warrior's steering was under the control of the helm - controlled by two wheels, one on the upper deck aft and one directly below on the main deck. Each wheel has space for eight men - in rough conditions the helm would be manned by 16 men, 8 on each deck, who would struggle to hold the ship on course. The wheel must turn through six complete turns to swing the rudder from hard-a-port (full port rudder) to hard-a-starboard. Rope is wound around the wheel drum and passes through the deck to the wheel below. Cables then run along the maindeck deckhead to the rudder yoke behind the Captain's cabin. Warrior was notoriously difficult to steer and unresponsive to the helm. This was due to the rudder being too small for the length and displacement of the ship - meaning that Warrior had to be handled carefully and with considerable planning. : H.M.S. Warrior, Portsmouth, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel
Ventilation Ventilation tube on the deck. Really beautiful and must have been terrible to ceep clean and shiny : H.M.S. Warrior, Portsmouth, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Ropes Ropes folded by the mast : H.M.S. Warrior, Portsmouth, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Spears Weapons of the past still in use at the time of HMS Warrior's prime : H.M.S. Warrior, Portsmouth, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Capstan Upper deck capstan : H.M.S. Warrior, Portsmouth, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel
Main deck wheels Warrior's steering was under the control of the helm - controlled by two wheels, one on the upper deck aft and one directly below on the main deck. Each wheel has space for eight men - in rough conditions the helm would be manned by 16 men, 8 on each deck, who would struggle to hold the ship on course. The wheel must turn through six complete turns to swing the rudder from hard-a-port (full port rudder) to hard-a-starboard. Rope is wound around the wheel drum and passes through the deck to the wheel below. Cables then run along the maindeck deckhead to the rudder yoke behind the Captain's cabin. Warrior was notoriously difficult to steer and unresponsive to the helm. This was due to the rudder being too small for the length and displacement of the ship - meaning that Warrior had to be handled carefully and with considerable planning. : H.M.S. Warrior, Portsmouth, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Compasses Main deck compasses : H.M.S. Warrior, Portsmouth, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Bulwark end deco Beautiful decoration on the end of the main deck bulwark : H.M.S. Warrior, Portsmouth, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Gun deck Cannons The main armament were heavier 68 pounder cannon, they remained muzzle loading and were serviced and fired as cannon had been for centuries - but with the technical improvement of a percussion cap firing lock instead of a flint lock or 'match' smouldering rope end. The basic gun mounting remains the same - with the iron barrel mounted on a wooden truck, secured to the ship's side by thick manilla ropes. When the gun fired, the recoil was absorbed by the rope - preventing the gun from flinging itself across the deck! The recoil effect was massive - a 68 pd ball fired at some 1200 feet per second results in a 5 ton gun recoiling at some 7 feet per second! The 68 pdr cannon had a range of some 2,500 yards (2,300m - about 1 and a half miles) and generally fired round shot - iron or stone. The guns could fire round shells containing a variety of small fragments - and would then have a devastating effect against the crew of an enemy ship. : H.M.S. Warrior, Portsmouth, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel
Rifles Rifles ready to be used : H.M.S. Warrior, Portsmouth, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Captain's day cabin In the great day cabin, furnished with the space and appearance of a country house, the Captain controlled the movement of the ship and the lives of every man on board. Under the orders of the Admiralty, the Captain managed the ship - and, quite literally, exercised the power of life and death over everyone on board. : H.M.S. Warrior, Portsmouth, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Mater's cabin Ship's master's cabin, which he shared with a cannon : H.M.S. Warrior, Portsmouth, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Brodie's patent galley Brodie's patent galley, no open fire any more and quite compact system to feed a huge amount of men : H.M.S. Warrior, Portsmouth, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel
Anchor and mooring chains Raising the anchor onboard Warrior was a huge team effort - lifting the 5.6 Tonne anchor, the heaviest anchor to be lifted by manual means alone. Anchors (Admiralty standard pattern stock and fluke anchor) were mounted port and starboard at the bow and stern and were secured to wrought-iron chains passing through the anchor hawse pipe then along the maindeck to the chain locker amidships. The anchors could only be worked one at a time and were hauled in by means of the capstan - a linked device with capstan heads on both the main and lower decks. When the anchor was raised above the water, it was lifted to the cat-head and secured into place alongside the bow. The stock lay beneath the cat-head and the fluke was lashed to the ship's side. The anchor is heavy - and coming loose could cause considerable damage. At the forward end of the main deck the anchor chain was secured by a slip shackle connected to the strong iron bitts. : H.M.S. Warrior, Portsmouth, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Bathtubes The only means to wash oneself while onboard : H.M.S. Warrior, Portsmouth, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Bag racks Personal belongings were stored on these kind of kit bags except small personal items, which were kept in a ma's ditty box by their mess tables : H.M.S. Warrior, Portsmouth, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Issuing room Food storage and rationing store : H.M.S. Warrior, Portsmouth, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel
Paymaster's cabin Paymaster was responsible for the ships stores and food. His cabin was located on the main deck : H.M.S. Warrior, Portsmouth, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel The Wardroom The Wardroom was a formal mess, run under the Presidency of the Commander. The Captain was not a member of the Wardroom and had to be invited to join the other officers in their mess. : H.M.S. Warrior, Portsmouth, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Engine room The engines and boilers for Warrior were built by Penn's Engineering Works at Greenwich - just a little further down the Thames from the Blackwall yard of Thames Ironworks where the hull was constructed. The two pistons drive the shaft through massive cranks - with each piston moving backwards and forwards a distance of some 2 feet. The cylinders are very large - and had to be because of the low steam pressure delivered by the boilers. The low pressure and the large size of the cylinders made the engines very inefficient. : H.M.S. Warrior, Portsmouth, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Boiler room Warrior carried ten boilers, each heated by four furnaces. Coal was stored in bunkers at the rear end of the boilers and when full, the bunkers held 850 tons of coal - all of which had to be loaded by hand, brought on board in sacks and emptied down chutes to the bunkers where the stokers were waiting. Coaling ship was a task for all crew, seamen and officers as well as stokers and engineers - lifting 850 tons onboard would take 2 days of strenous effort. The fire required a continous supply of air which would be drawn down from the upper deck - the draught developed by the roaring furnaces would keep the fires going and also provide some ventilation. Heat from the furnace boiled water in the boilers, creating the steam required to turn the engines. Warrior's boilers were only able to generate steam at relatively low pressures which drove the large twin cylinder steam engine at a maximum speed of 56 rpm - pushing Warrior through the water at about 14 knots : H.M.S. Warrior, Portsmouth, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel
HMS Victory HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is most famous as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. She was also Keppel's flagship at Ushant, Howe's flagship at Cape Spartel and Jervis's flagship at Cape St Vincent. After 1824 she served as a harbour ship. In 1922 she was moved to a dry dock at Portsmouth, England, and preserved as a museum ship. She is the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012 and is the world's oldest naval ship still in commission. Displacement: 3,500 tons (3,556 tonnes) Tons burthen: 2,142 tons bm Length: 57 m (gundeck), 69.34 m(overall) Beam: 15.80 m Draught: 8.76 m Depth of hold: 6.55 m Propulsion: Sails—5,440 m² Sail plan: Full-rigged ship Speed: 8 to 9 knots maximum Complement: Approximately 850 : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Victory's bow HMS Victory's bow, the little blue cabin is the toilet : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Anchor HMS Victory's anchor : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Gunports Gunports of Lower- Middle and Upper Gun Deck, those glass windows were definitely not there when Victory was actually sailing. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel
Be humble! Getting in to HMS Victory requires a humble attitude : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Upper gun deck The upper gun deck has 12 pdr cannon : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel The Admiral's Cabin The splendour of the Admiral's cabin contrasts sharply with the living conditions of the ordinary seamen on board Victory. Here, amongst the elegant decor reminiscent of the great country house, the Admiral entertained his senior officers and planned his strategy for the coming battle. In this cabin, Admiral Sir John Jervis dined with Commodore Nelson, Captain Calder, Captain Hallowell and Sir William Elliott on the eve of the Battle of Cape St. Vincent. Here, Jervis would have retired after the battle to write his dispatches to the Admiralty. In action, even the Admiral's cabin became part of the gun decks. The bulkheads were swung up and clipped to the deckhead to provide a clear space for action. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel The Admiral's Cabin The Admiral had his own night cabin by the great day cabin and dining room. Admiral Nelson's swinging cot is shown here, with replicas of the hangings made for him by Emma, Lady Hamilton. The cot was made to measure, and was intended to serve as the officer's coffin if he was unlucky and died on board. The cot is suspended between two 12 pounder cannon. In action this space would be completely cleared and revert to being part of the upper gun deck. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel
Sickbay Sick Berth on the Upper Gun Deck, where sick men lay in hanging cots with linen sheets, with toilet facilities nearby. During battle, they were taken below the waterline to the Orlop Deck. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Belaying pin Belaying pins are used to hold the ropes and also served as weapons in close combat. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Ship's Bell Current bell of HMS Victory is made in 1795 and is the same size and design as the original, which was blown to Kingdom Come during the early stages of the Battle of Trafalgar. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Royal insignia Royal insignia of George III on a cannon : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel
Fire Buckets Royal insignia of George III on fire buckets : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Here Nelson fell The place Nelson fell during the battle of Trafalgar, mortally wounded. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Here Nelson fell The place Nelson fell during the battle of Trafalgar, mortally wounded. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Jeer capstan Capstan, used for hoisting in stores, guns, boats, raising topmasts and yards, is located on the upper gun deck. This capstan worked in unison with it's counterpart on the deck below and all in all 140 men could man the 14 capstan bars. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel
Galley Galley was manned by 1 cook and 2-3 assistants. The largen iron Brodie was essential part of the galley and revolutionised cooking on ships. Inventor Alexander Brodie made a fortune with his stoves as he gained monopoly of the supply of cooking and heating stoves to the Navy. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Galley Galley was manned by 1 cook and 2-3 assistants. The largen iron Brodie was essential part of the galley and revolutionised cooking on ships. Inventor Alexander Brodie made a fortune with his stoves as he gained monopoly of the supply of cooking and heating stoves to the Navy. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Hammocks Ordinary crew members slept in hammock suspended on the gun decks. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Lower gundeck The heaviest fighting took place on the lower gun deck, where hundreds of men in cramped conditions fired Victory's 30 heaviest cannon. Her complement of up to 850 men comprised 250 to sail her and some 600 to fight. Most slept in hammocks suspended from the low beams, but in battle up to 14 men were needed to manoeuvre and fire guns weighing nearly three tons each. Headroom on board was well below 1.8m in places. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel
Carpenter's store Carpenter was very important man in wooden ships and was highly ranked and paid. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel The hold Sand or gravel was used to keep barrels in place. It was also used as ballast. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Mary Rose museum The new £27 million Mary Rose Museum opened its doors to visitors in 2013. Located just metres from Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory and the ships of the modern Royal Navy, the new museum provides one of the most significant insights into Tudor life in the world and creates the new centrepiece to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. The Tudor ship that captured the world's imagination when she was raised from the seabed in 1982 is the only sixteenth century warship on display anywhere in the world and the brand new Museum built around her reunites her with many of her 19,000 artefacts and crew : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel The Mary Rose Bell This bronze bell was made in Malines near Antwerp. The inscription reads "Ic ben ghegoten int yaer MCCCCCX", meaning I was made in the year 1510. That year Henry VIII ordered the ship. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel
Mary Rose The Mary Rose was a carrack-type warship of the English Tudor navy of King Henry VIII. After serving for 33 years in several wars against France, Scotland, and Brittany and after being substantially rebuilt in 1536, she saw her last action on 19 July 1545. While leading the attack on the galleys of a French invasion fleet, she sank in the Solent, the straits north of the Isle of Wight. The wreck of the Mary Rose was rediscovered in 1971 and salvaged in 1982 by the Mary Rose Trust in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology. The surviving section of the ship and thousands of recovered artefacts are of immeasurable value as a Tudor-era time capsule. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Bronze cannon The bronze guns were cast in one piece and rested on four-wheel carriages which were essentially the same as those used until the 19th century. Generally, the bronze guns used cast iron shot and were more suited to penetrate hull sides. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Coins Golden coins found from the wreck. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel The Royal Naval Museum The history of the Royal Navy dates back over a thousand years to King Alfred's first battle at sea in 882. The Navy has defended Britain from invasion, attacked enemies and eventually established Britain as the dominant world sea power in the 19th century. Today's role involves peacekeeping, fighting piracy and the prevention of drug trafficking. The influence of the Navy can be felt at every level in our society: in our speech, literature, dress, music, character, culture and customs. The history of the Navy is to a remarkable extent the history of Britain. The Royal Naval Museum, in Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard, is one of Britain’s oldest maritime museums. The Museum’s aim is to preserve and present the history of the 'Fleet' - the ships and the men and women who manned them. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel
Horatio Nelson Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, KB (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was a British flag officer famous for his service in the Royal Navy, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars. He was noted for his inspirational leadership and superb grasp of strategy and unconventional tactics, which resulted in a number of decisive naval victories. He was wounded several times in combat, losing one arm in the unsuccessful attempt to conquer Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the sight in one eye in Corsica. Of his several victories, the best known and most notable was the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, during which he was shot and killed. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Navy bear A cute teddy bear on display in The Naval Museum, someone's favourite "thing". This shows I'm not the only one digging bears. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Robert Scott Robert Falcon Scott, CVO (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13. During this second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition. On their return journey, Scott and his four comrades all died from a combination of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Spinnaker Tower Spinnaker Tower is a 170-metre landmark tower. It is the centrepiece of the redevelopment of Portsmouth Harbour, which was supported by a National Lottery grant. Its shape was chosen by Portsmouth residents from a selection. The tower, designed by local firm HGP Architects and engineering consultants Scott Wilson and built by Mowlem, reflects Portsmouth's maritime history through its being modelled after a sail.[5] The tower was opened on 18 October 2005. : Portsmouth, Spinnaker tower, boat, city, harbour, historia, history, kaupunki, kesäloma, laiva, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel
Spinnaker Tower Spinnaker Tower is a 170-metre landmark tower. It is the centrepiece of the redevelopment of Portsmouth Harbour, which was supported by a National Lottery grant. Its shape was chosen by Portsmouth residents from a selection. The tower, designed by local firm HGP Architects and engineering consultants Scott Wilson and built by Mowlem, reflects Portsmouth's maritime history through its being modelled after a sail.[5] The tower was opened on 18 October 2005. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Portsmouth Panorama of Portsmouth, taken from the Spinnaker Tower, so there are some glass reflections and weird colour shifts : 2014, EOS 5D, Portsmouth, city, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, panoraama, panorama, summer holiday, travel Portsmouth Old Town Old Portsmouth was where Portsmouth started and it now houses many historic buildings. In 1704 royal permission was given for people to build houses near to the dockyard and so a new suburb called Portsmouth Common grew, this changed its name to Portsea in 1792. This new suburb soon outgrew the original town, which became known as Old Portsmouth. The area called Old Portsmouth is located on the south western tip of the island. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Portsmouth Cathedral Portsmouth Cathedral is surrounded in history. In about 1180 Jean de Gisors, the founder of Portsmouth, granted land to build a chapel and in 1188 Richard Toclyve consecrated the chancel and nave. In 1196 Godfrey de Lucy consecrated the transepts, altars and churchyard. The church survived a French raid in 1337 and in 1449 the Bishop of Chichester was murdered by local sailors. The town's inhabitants were excommunicated and the church was closed. In 1591 Elizabeth I worshipped in St Thomas's church and in 1642 during the Civil War the church was bombarded by Parliamentarian forces. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel
Vulcan Building Built between 1811 and 1814 in red brick with grey lintels, the Vulcan Building was by far the most striking structure in the whole of Portsmouth Harbour and was the main storehouse of the ordnance facility and Royal Ordnance’s largest building. The building’s importance was reflected by its embellishments which included pediment and a central clock tower. The left wing has been re built in recent years to restore the building to its appearance prior to World War II. : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel Fire fighting boats Fire fighting boats in front of the Portsmouth harbour : Portsmouth, city, harbour, kaupunki, kesäloma, matka, satama, summer holiday, travel