Skin of Iron and Bound in Rope

It’s so easy to take what you have on your doorstep for granted. One such example for me is the Navy Dockyard in Portsmouth, home to Nelson’s HMS Victory, King Henry VIII’s The Mary Rose, cutting edge naval ships and HMS Warrior, the first ironclad warship. The ship itself is moored up outside the dockyard’s dry docks and dominates the view for anyone in, on or around Portsmouth Harbour. Despite that, after time you get so used to it, it becomes part of the proverbial furniture of the harbour…which is a pity as it is a major historical piece of naval history and well worth a visit (and I shouldn’t have left it 15 years before I returned).