Nautical Fun Times!

Climbing wall!

Queue the music. “Ohhhh if nautical nonsense be something you wish, then jump on the deck and flop like a fish!” Let’s get in the nautical theme everybody because I have been getting pretty nautical in the last few days. It’s partly because we are in Portsmouth and it’s a wee bit nautical because of the influence of Nelson and all. But it’s mostly because we have been doing some hard core museuming in the past few days. One of the museums we looked at was the museum to Horatio Nelson. Nelson was a great Admiral in the British Royal Fleet in the 1800s he was very famous for his many navel victory’s all throughout his life. One of his most famous ones and his last was when he defeated the combined French and Spanish fleet in the battle of Trafgar. While on the deck of the navy’s flagship the H.M.S. victory he was shot by a French sniper and was mortally wounded. He only lived 3 more hours in time to see the British fleet beat the French and Spanish in the battle of Trafalgar.

Ayi Ayi captain!

Another museum we went to was the H.M.S. Warrior which is actually a ship turned into a museum but it’s all the same! Anyways the H.M.S. Warrior was the first iron hulled battleship in the royal navy it was commissioned in 1860.  Although it was state-of-the-art in its day it mainly used cannons. It could drop its sails and use its steam engine in bad weather. We also went to another museum ship the H.M.S. Victory. The Victory was the same ship that Nelson led the attack from on the French and Spanish fleet in the battle of Trafalgar. Apparently it is a commissioned battleship in the British Navy, but when aliens from the sea attack do they really want a wooden 400 year old battleship? Now I may not be glorifying Nelson as most Navel historians would be but since he has his own square in London and has a lot of monuments to him I will talk about him more! This guy was so good at his job even when his left arm got amputated he was still walking around the deck of his ship in the middle of battle. Then when his eye got blown out he commanded the entire British Fleet and was by most people considered one of the best leaders of all time. Now when I first mentioned his name I only said his first and last name but he has big name it is: Vice Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, such big, much name, wowe doge.

Inside the H.M.S. Warrior

Another  thing we went to was more of an interactive museum that featured  two  climbing walls, one normal and one that was like a treadmill that went on forever. You could also alter the angle to make it like you are climbing against gravity. The last two museums we went to were the submarine museum and the explosion museum. The submarine museum featured things like one of the first submarines that was used by the British Navy to some of the newest subs today. We also got a tour of the H.M.S. Alliance which was a sub used in the Second World War. Then it was turned into a training area for cadets then into a museum. Lastly we went to the Explosion museum which featured missiles and Artillery cannons used today and as early as the American civil war. They also had a missile that would have carried a nuclear bomb. All these nautical historical museums pleased my very nautical dad very much for Fathers Day.

The Warrior

The H.M.S. Victory

H.M.S. Alliance

More Climbing wall!

Doge!

Bella!