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Mary Rose Trip
16th
May 2014
Another
sunny day for one of our outings, this time
to the Mary Rose Museum at the historic
dockyards in Portsmouth.
The Mary Rose sank in the Solent in 1545 and
was rediscovered in 1971 and salvaged in
1982 and they have recently opened a museum
to show off her decks and the artefacts
found.
But as a wheel chair user I found it
a bit frustrating as there were very few
windows at my height, so seeing the wreck
was a bit hit and miss, apparently they are
drying out the Mary Rose and this should be
completed within five years when they will
replace the small windows with plate glass, still
it was very interesting albeit a bit dark.
We then had a quick lunch before jumping
onto the boat for a harbour tour, where we
saw the HMS
Illustrious
and also saw the new stealth destroyer they
were building HMS Daring that should be able
to evade radar, lets hope it never gets
lost.
Then we shot back to the Victory and I was
able to take my scooter onto the lower deck,
which was great, a lot bigger inside that I
can remember, as can be seen from the
pictures below.
After that Karen was gasping for another
cup of tea and so we made our way back to
Costa-plenty by HMS Warrior for a cuppa or
two and despite the tide being in, I drove
my scooter up the steep slope onto the deck
of the Warrior, apparently its a lot easier
at low tide as the angle of the ramp is
lower, but we made it.
A great day indeed, many thanks to the
organisers.
Enjoy the pictures.
Robin
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