Originally Posted by
Phrank
Very cool - I visited, "The HMS Victory", in or around 1978-79, was stunned at how low the ceiling was on the lower decks...needless to say, at 6' 4", I would have been a lousy powder monkey!
Remember reading some of the letters home in a wonderful book I have, especially one from a 12 year old boy, who later fell from the rigging and died. The level of literacy was astounding, by today's standards a University English Prof would be hard pressed to write as eloquently!
You are truly lucky to have spent that time on the HMS Victory, that battle transformed Britain into the undisputed ruler of the oceans and sea's virtually until the sinking of, The Hood by the Bismarck....oh crap...look what we have now, an English razor, British naval power, and the Bismark all in one thread!!