Ah, I’m mostly joking. Victory is a really cool museum, almost as cool as the wreck of the Mary Rose that’s displayed in a building next to her.
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She’s too beautiful. So beautiful in fact, that I am now banned from Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
I would say that the US is a very weird place, but then I remembered that this

is the flagship of the
British NavyFirst British Sea Lord. She hasn’t floated for literally 100 years.So mostly I guess it’s just that militaries are weird.

When they took our wooden boat out of the water it turned out that she’d hogged by around 500mm. Which is quite a lot for a boat. In fairness, she was 150 years old by that point.
Now there’s a vast system of hydraulic rams supporting her in the dry dock, to the point that they reckon she’s better supported now than when she was afloat.