I uploaded an iphone shot of this grand old beast onto one of my other albums and to be honest, I think I prefer the hipsta processing the iphone gave compared to this - and as it's had a load of views and favs (for which I thank you all for), I wonder how this version will be received... (iphone shot here
http://365project.org/andycoleborn/oldies-and-othe/2012-01-30)
But because it's such a great ship and being fairly pleased with this shot too, I thought I'd upload a similar shot to my main album...
As for my day - took Mum to the Crematorium to see Dad's flowers whilst they are still there (sad and moving time) and then into town for some shopping then onto Old Portsmouth for a walk around the Naval Dockyards and a rather expensive coffee in the Dockyard's museum cafe..!! (isn't that always the case??)...
Bit of history about HMS Warrior if you fancy a read:
Warrior was designed and built in response to an aggressive French shipbuilding programme which saw the introduction of the first iron-clad warship La Gloire designed by the brilliant naval architect Stanislas Charles Henri Dupuy de Lome.
Determined to see off this challenge to the supremacy of the Royal Navy the then First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir John Somerset Pakington, determined to build a ship so superior in terms of quality, speed, size, armament and armour that it would be inconceivable to France that she could take Britain on in a sea battle.
When commissioned by Captain the Hon. Arthur Auckland Leopold Pedro Cochrane, on August 1st 1861, Warrior was the largest warship in the world, at 9,210 tons displacement she was fully 60% larger than La Gloire.
The ship underwent minor modifications after a sea trial. In June 1862, she started active service in the Channel Squadron, patrolling coastal waters and sailing to Lisbon and Gibraltar.
Bet they were pleased to receive your records tho, as it's important to keep these bits of history...