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A visit to Portsmouth Dockyard with PROBUS by Peter, Helen and Steve on 17th Sept 2014

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Portsmouth 2015

"Boathouse No 7" for coffee on arrival at 11am.

Penny in the slot machine   (20p now)

Aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious de-commissioning.

Pilot Boat taken from the Waterbus to the submarine museum

New Lightship ready to be repositioned

Spinnaker Tower

Under the Submarine Museum Dock Gosport

 HMS Alliance from WW2

Floating Dry-dock with yacht having its bottom scraped

 

Dockside piles showing tidal range

A valve in HMS Alliance

Conning Tower

Hydroplane

Torpedo Tubes

A Mess Deck

Food stored

Bread stored

Bunks

Looking down at the Batteries that drive the boat below water.

Breakfast remains

An individual's bunk

Preparing for the memorial service for HMS Affray

Periscope

CPO's Mess

Ward Room

The Heads

Pilot's Seat

Complex Valves

Purser's Office

Galley

Controls

Wireless Shack

Washroom

Depth Meter

Diesel Engine for surface sailing

Propeller Controls

Engine Room Controls the submarine full with visitors

Rear Torpedo Tubes

Detail (beer supplies)

Cut away torpedo

Electrical Main Switch

Alliance's Two Propellers and hydroplanes

Model of HMS Hollande No1, 1901, The first RN Submarine which sank in 1913 after de-commissioning  and was recovered in 1982.

Hollande's Propeller

The single torpedo tube inside

Rusty Engine

Long view

Forward torpedo port

Hollande Explained

Swordfish Torpedo

View of the Sea Front and Henry VIII's Fort on the way back from Gosport

Spinnaker Tower

Restaurant with partial glass floor in the Spinnaker Tower

Entrance to the Apprentices' Museum

A Fitter resting

Mould Maker ready to make a casting

Hand Riveting

Primitive Diving Suit

Rope Spinner

A Pirate

Admiral Benbow

Museum Shop

Monitor 33 (1915) being restored

 

HMS Dragon a Type 45 Destroyer being loaded with provisions

In the Field Gun Race

HMS Victory

The Stern

Gangway

Detail

Gun ports

Gun Deck

Canon

Port Side Gun Deck

Captain's Table

Dress and Work Uniforms

The Great Cabin

Nelson's Cot

The Bowsprit

Belfry and Ships Bell

The Ship's Wheel

Admiring it

Deck Gun

Resting

Rigging

Reflection

Mess Table

Iron Cooking Range

Canon balls

A Photographer

Chain Shot etc

Steering Cables

Cabbages

Replacement Capstan

Towards the Chain Locker

Carpenters' Shop

Surgeons Table

Mary Rose was an old ship refurbished with new superstructures

Muzzle loading Bronze Culverin

Breach loading gun, the breach, to the right, was then wedged!

Henry VIII in the Mary Rose Exhibition

Evaporated salt water ??

Guide in Period Costume

Ships Dog (rat catcher)

Purser's Skull

Brick Oven

Wooden Plates, Bowls etc

The Crows Nest

Nit Combs

Admiral Nelson

Field Gun

Detail, The Breach

Wheel Carrier

Dock Yard Gate Pub

HMS Warrior 1896

 Warrior's Figurehead

Hotel Balcony

Steam and sail combination

Spinnaker Tower

Fishing Boat

The Hard

Shopping Centre

Entrance Tunnel

Resting

HMS Marlborough Figurehead

Ferry Boat enters harbour

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