#hms warrior

[i-am-countess-olivia]

HMS Victory / HMS Warrior photo dump below the cut. A very happy day spent in Portsmouth.

Victory

Warrior

[tigerballoons]

Warrior, my queen

[ltwilliammowett]

Half time with our calendar and this is the perfect moment to introduce you to a lady who shows the interface of Age of Sail and Age of Steam. She is generally regarded as the start of the Age of Steam and yet she still has both elements. But who am I talking about ? - The HMS Warrior

More about her history here:

HMS WARRIOR was built as part of Britain’s response to concerns over France’s maritime ambitions which included the building of LA GLOIRE, a powerful ironclad which was the most advanced warship of its day.  WARRIOR was commissioned on 1 August 1861 and at that time unquestionably ruled the seas. Her main guns, engines and boilers were contained within an armoured wrought iron hull and she could be driven by both steam and sail. This combination meant that she could outrun and outgun any ship afloat and she never fired a shot in anger – the classic deterrent.

During the first commission her main role was to lead the Channel Squadron. On 22 November 1864 she paid off for her first major refit at Portsmouth Dockyard during which the ship was comprehensively refurbished. She was also completely re-armed with 7” and 8” muzzle loaded rifled guns. However, in the American Civil War the success of the Monitor was to have a dramatic effect on naval thinking and WARRIOR’s role as ‘Monarch of the Seas’ was to be very short-lived.

She re-commissioned in July 1867 and re-joined the Channel Fleet. The second commission was rather less interesting than the first as she was no longer regarded as the most powerful warship afloat and faded from the limelight. The second commission ended in 1871 and she then spent four years in refit at Portsmouth being fitted with improved boilers, steam power for the forward capstan and a new poop deck to accommodate an Admiral.  On completion in 1875 she became part of the First Reserve Fleet where she was to remain until paying at Portsmouth on 31 May 1883.

After periods as a depot ship and part of HMS VERNON she was paid off in 1924. She was then converted for use as a floating oil jetty and in 1929 was towed to Pembroke Dock where she was to remain for the next 50 years. In 1967 the campaign to restore WARRIOR started and prominent in this was Sir John Smith who formed the Manifold Trust. A committee chaired by the Duke of Edinburgh met in 1968 to discuss her future and from this emerged the Maritime Trust. When Pembroke Dock closed in 1978 the Manifold Trust agreed to underwrite the cost of restoration and the ship was handed over to the Maritime Trust in 1979.

In 1983 ownership was transferred to the Ship’s Preservation Trust which became the Warrior Preservation Trust in 1983. Although the hull was very sound the rest of the ship was in a poor state. The task which was part restoration and part re-building needed vast resources not only of money (£8M) but also of skill, patience and endurance. The 8 year restoration programme at Hartlepool transformed her into one of the world’s most important historic warships and in 1987 she returned to Portsmouth where she is now moored in the Historic Dockyard.

A planned preservation programme is in place for the ship and over the years she has been dry-docked twice, and the upper deck, (£725K provided by the Heritage Lottery Fund), all three fighting tops and half moons and the stern gallery have been replaced.

[royllowarch]

HMS Warrior (1860) by Roy Llowarch Via Flickr: HMS Warrior. The last photos to be uploaded from this trip and back using my Canon DSLR. I notice that when downsizing photos the camera details are lost! Anyway I had an enjoyable trip around this beautiful old Ironclad Royal Navy Frigate. Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is well worth a visit. HMS Victory has no top masts at the moment which is sad but she is still a beautiful iconic ship. The Mary Rose and Mary Rose museum are an amazing part of English history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Warrior_(1860)

[definitely-ellie]

Sometimes Im able to remember how weird my brain is and how others see me and my actions.

(Yes I am aware that the ship on the left is not HMS Victory, it pains me. Try getting a good transparent image of her with and her rigging, and then you will understand.)

[egaarajobs]

HMS WARRIOR (1860), a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy in 1859-1861.

[deckhanddandy]

HMS Warrior, Portsmouth, England (2024) Thinking about her again <3

[thiswillnotdo]

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[travellerthroughtime]

HMS Warrior, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Hampshire

[ukdamo]

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: HMS Warrior

[i-am-countess-olivia]

Assorted officers’ sleeping quarters aboard HMS Warrior (1860).

Love the Captain’s fancy hammock (2nd picture). All of these look much bigger in pictures than in reality. It’s somehow so funny to think of a grand strutting personality such as Fitzjames tucked away into one of these tiny (likely smaller) spaces for the night.

[the-delta-42]

Delta Travels - Portsmouth Historic Dockyard: HMS Warrior

Disclaimer: The area in this video is a public place and, as a result, will have members of the public appearing in the footage. I adjusted the camera to avoid all their faces as best as I can. Those who appear in the footage regularly are family members and are aware that I'm filming.

[ltwilliammowett]

HMS Warrior

📷 D. Collings

[ailendolin]

Thomas’s Grand Tour Day 9: Ships!

We visited the Historic Dockyard in Portsmouth today - to be more precise, three gorgeous ladies: HMS Victory, the Mary Rose and HMS Warrior. Every ship is beautiful and fascinating im her own way and I had a very lovely talk at the Mary Rose museum with a nice gentleman who let me touch a piece of wood from her as well as hold and smell one of her ropes - "That's what 500 years ago smells like!" he said. I bought a ton of books (the Horrible Histories ones about pirates among them) as well as an HMS Victory art print by David Bell I've been wanting to have for ages but couldn’t get in Germany. All in all, it was an incredible last day.

[royllowarch]

HMS Warrior (1860) by Roy Llowarch Via Flickr: A trip over to Portsmouth Saturday 14th of August 2021. Seen here is HMS Warrior. Warrior and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first ocean-going armour plated iron hulled warships in the world. They were built in response to France launching the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the wooden-hulled Gloire. These photos were taken with my Canon Camera on a beautiful day in Pompey

[silverfoxstole]

Had a walk round Old Portsmouth this morning. Not been down there for quite a while and it was so nice to be out in the sunshine, near the sea; I've not really been out and about that much since I quit my job after the first lockdown. The weather was beautiful, though I really don't think it's warm enough for sunbathing, as some brave souls were doing at the Hot Walls!

Was really quiet when we arrived; no one even fishing on the pier. Had a coffee and sat in the sun at the Canteen in the Round Tower. I can't recall if I've ever looked inside the tower itself before:

Walked on down to Spice Island. It's a shame HMS Warrior is half-hidden by the Fast Cat terminal. Normally Victory’s masts would be visible behind her but they’re still down and won’t be replaced for some time as she’s halfway through a 20 year restoration project, at the end of which she’ll be fully re-rigged.

While we were there HMS Westminster was being towed out:

Made a change to have the opportunity to take photos again. I enjoy photography and I've missed it.