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katriona_s in following_sea

Victory Restoration

Sep 21, 2011 00:22

I have not noticed this news until recently... Can the visitors see the operation??? I hope UK resident members will report the details ( Read more... )

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anteros_lmc September 20 2011, 22:16:21 UTC

Thanks for posting this! I'd been meaning to post something about the restoration work for ages but hadn't got round to it. Sadly I'm at the wrong end of the country to see the restoration underway, however you can follow progress via Portsmouth Historic Dockyard's twitter feed @PompeyDockyard.

The Guardian also had a short article on Victory and her £40m restoration project recently: HMS Victory and the ship that almost sank Lord Nelson.

I'll post any further updates I come across :)

anteros_lmc September 21 2011, 13:33:51 UTC

Right on cue, @PompeyDockyard posted this pic today of the on-going mast restoration.

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katriona_s September 22 2011, 13:10:05 UTC

Wow...it's amazing. And I cannot help imagining how were the works in the old days with no cranes nor trucks...

anteros_lmc September 22 2011, 22:37:39 UTC

They did have cranes, they had sheer hulks! The sheers effectively acted as cranes. The picture below is of the Clyde, Captain Cunningham, arriving at Sheerness following her escape from the Nore mutiny but you can see a sheer hulk to the right

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vespican September 20 2011, 23:51:18 UTC

Coincidentally, USS Constitution just finished a repair cycle in which yards and upper masts were sent down. Alterations were also made to restore the frigate more to it's 1812 appearance. Scuttlebutt is that she may sail again for the 200 year anniversary of the War of 1812. (Sailed for the first time in nearly a century in 1997, the two hundredth anniversary of her launching.)

Great photos and video. For some reason I haven't checked the Victory web-site in quite a while.
Dave