Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
Mary Rose (1512)
The Mary Rose was a Carrack type warship of the Tudor Royal Navy and was the flagship of King Henry VIII. Laid down in 1510 and launched in July 1511, the Mary Rose was armed with up to 91 cannons and had a complement of 200 sailors, 30 gunners and 185 soldiers. She was heavily rebuilt in 1536, which increased her weight to almost 800 tons, and as a result, it is widely believed by naval historians that this made her 'top heavy,' resulting in her sinking whilst engaged against a French Invasion Fleet in the solent on 19th July 1545. Discovered as a wreck in 1971, she was later raised to worldwide acclaim in 1982 and after 30 years of restoration is now permanently preserved in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard beside HMS Victory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bGYUmKKDTs
HMS Victory
A visit on board HMS Victory at Portsmouth Dockyard, the Royal Navy's oldest commissioned warship. Built at Chatham Dockyard and launched on 7th May 1765, this 104 gun first rate top of the line battleship was commissioned into the fleet in 1778 and is most noted for being the flagship of Lord Horatio Nelson during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. During her career, HMS Victory participated in the First Battle of Ushant (1778), the Second Battle of Ushant (1781), the Siege of Gibraltar (1782) and the battles of Cape Spartel (1782), Cape St Vincent (1797) and finally Trafalgar (1805). With a displacement of 3,500 tons, HMS Victory was moved to her present dry dock, the oldest dry dock in the world, in 1922, and is today the flagship of the First Sea Lord, the oldest warship in the world still in commission.
HMS Warrior (1860)
A tour on board HMS Warrior (1860), the lead ship in the 'Warrior' Class of Ironclads for the Royal Navy as preserved at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. HMS Warrior was laid down in August 1859 and launched on 29th December 1860, a 40 gun Ironclad steam powered warship. HMS Warrior and her sister 'Black Prince' were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching of the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the wooden-hulled Gloire in 1859. Warrior conducted a publicity tour of Great Britain in 1863 and spent her active career with the Channel Squadron. Obsolescent following the 1871 launching of the mastless and more capable HMS Devastation, she was placed in reserve in 1875 and decommissioned in 1883. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxAlBHS7ODk
R.Y Osborne
This steam pinnace, R.Y Osborne, was built in 1896 by J. Samuel White & Co of East Cowes and is seen preserved inside Boat House No. 4 at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. This steam pinnance, the first steam powered royal launch, was destined to eventually serve three royal yachts, the 'Victoria & Albert' (later renamed Osborne) of 1854, a subsequent 'Victoria & Albert' built in 1901, and finally the royal yacht 'Alexandra,' built in 1907. The vessel later served King Edward VII when he was Prince of Wales as denoted by his crest on the bow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51MzbDOTf4A