VirtualGlobetrotting: United Kingdom: Portsmouth

VirtualGlobetrotting Live View

Oberon class submarine at Pounds Scrapyard
Hinkkanen (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Hinkkanen.
Read more...
Oberon class submarine at Pounds Scrapyard, Portsmouth, UK. It could be either HMS Otus or HMS Opportune shown in the photo here:
http://www.btinternet.com/~warship/News/photo.htm
...but HMS Otus is now a museum ship at Sassnitz, Germany, so this one might be HMS Opportune (or then again it might be some other boat of the same class, at least HMS Otter is known to have been sold to Pounds).

LARC-60 Amphibious Vehicles
damein234 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: damein234.
Read more...
The LARC-60 transports wheeled and tracked vehicles, including beach preparation equipment and general cargo from ship to shore or to inland transfer points. It is the only amphibian in the Army inventory, and the only vessel capable of landing on a beach through a breaking surf. The LARC-60 can be deck-loaded on a commercial vessel or heavy lift ship for transport overseas. It can be transported on a semi-submersible vessel, in the well deck of an LSD, or aboard a SEABEE.
Characteristics and capabilities include the following:
* Length overall: 63 feet.
* Beam: 27 feet.
* Displacement (weight): 88 LTONs (light).
* Deck area: 527 square feet.
* Payload: 60 tons.
* Range: land, 60-ton load, 150 statue miles at 14 MPH; water, 60-ton load, 75 nautical miles at 6 knots.
* Draft: 7.5 feet (light); 9 feet (loaded).

Fort Blockhouse
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
Read more...
Fort Blockhouse is the final version of a complicated site. A blockhouse was first built on the Gosport side of Portsmouth harbour in 1495, with 5 guns. Henry VIII ordered it replaced with an 8 gun battery as part of his Device Forts in 1539. This had probably vanished by 1667 when Bernard de Gomme installed a 21 gun battery for Charles II. But in 1708 the fort was rebuilt on an irregular trace. Upgrading was done at the turn of the 19th century, and again in 1845, from which time most remains date. The site was considered obsolete by the 1859 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, and it was turned over to the Royal Navy, where as HMS Dolphin shore-establishment, it was the home of the submarine service for years.

RV Triton Trimaran Research Ship
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
Picture
The Triton Trimaran Research Ship was a technology demonstrator ship for the Royal Navy's Future Surface Combatant (FSC) frigate requirement, due to enter service from 2013 and replace the Type 23 frigates. Triton is the world's largest motor powered trimaran (triple-hulled) vessel, with a length of 90m and beam of 22m. QinetiQ (formerly DERA, the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency) funded the design and manufacture of the vessel, to be used to quantify the structural and seakeeping performance of the trimaran.
Following completion of the trials programme, Triton has been used as a trials platform for other QinetiQ technologies including the composite propeller.
Triton was the launch vessel for the QinetiQ 1 programme to break the world altitude record for a manned balloon. The target altitude of 25 miles (132,000ft) would take the two pilots into the stratosphere. The giant helium-filled balloon had a 9-acre area and was as high as the Empire State Building. An attempt on the record, in September 2003, was aborted after an 8m tear appeared in the helium balloon envelope during launch.

HMS Victory
Hinkkanen (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Hinkkanen.
Lord Nelson's flagship in the Battle of Trafalgar Preserved at Portsmouth

Mulberry Harbor
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
A section of a WWII Mulberry Harbor that sunk here after being built in Portsmouth. These huge concrete constructions were towed across the English Channel after D-Day to build artificial harbors off the landing beaches.

Palmerston Fort - Southsea Castle
(Note the lighthhouse on the NE corner of th castle walls.)
Built in 1544, the Castle was part of a series of fortifications constructed by Henry VIII around England's coasts to protect the country from invaders. Barely was the work completed when Henry VIII's flagship, the Mary Rose, tragically sank in front of the Castle. During the English Civil War, nearly a century later, the Castle was captured for the only time in its history, by Parliamentarian forces.
Over the centuries, Southsea Castle's defences were strengthened so that it could continue to protect Portsmouth. In the 19th Century a tunnel was built to defend the Castle moat. Visitors can still enter the tunnel and see how the Castle would have been defended against invaders.
The Castle has had many other uses besides defence. For a while it was a military prison. A lighthouse was built in the 1820s, and is still in use by shipping today. In 1960 the Castle left military service. It was acquired by Portsmouth City Council, which restored the Castle to its 19th century appearance.

Southsea Skate Park
Cheesey (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Cheesey.
Skate park, on Southsea common in Portsmouth.

Peter Sellers' birthplace
Dania (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Dania.
Peter Sellers, CBE (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980), was a British film actor, comedian and singer.
He appeared in the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show, featured on a number of hit comic songs and became known to a world-wide audience through his many film characterisations, among them Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther series of films.

Horsea Island Dive Centre (former torpedo range)
Horsea Island Dive Centre is the only inland salt-water diving facility in the UK. It offers divers the opportunity to dive in sea-like conditions in a safe, sheltered environment. Ideal for training divers and for divers wanting to refresh skills or try out new kit. Many of our regulars just come to enjoy a safe, relaxed dive.
Horsea Island offers divers a wide variety of marine life and underwater attractions organised into 3 zones to avoid ‘diver soup’ with platforms in 2 of the zones for training divers.
Initially, there were two islands, Little Horsea Island and Great Horsea Island. The Navy, needing somewhere to test and develop torpedo's purchased the islands, and joined them together, finally a strip was excavated down the middle to produce a torpedo range of some 800 yards in length, 80 yards wide at one end and 20 yards wide at the other.
The official opening of the range took place in 1889 and it was recognised as being the "finest torpedo experimental range in Europe". Because torpedo's were able to travel further in June 1905 work to extend the range to 1,115 yards in length was completed.

HM Prison Kingston
kaiken (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kaiken.

HMS Scylla (F71), HMS London (F95) & HMS Boxer (F92)
From the east, clockwise:
HMS Scylla
HMS Scylla (F71) was a Leander-class frigate of the Royal Navy (RN). She was built at Devonport Royal Dockyard and was the last RN frigate to be built at the Dockyard so far. Scylla was launched in August 1968 and commissioned in 1970.
She was sunk as an artificial reef in 2004.
HMS London
HMS London (F95) was a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy, originally named Bloodhound but renamed London at the request of the Mayor of London. She was flagship of the Royal Navy task force during the First Gulf War. She was decommissioned on 14 January 1999 and sold to the Romanian Navy on 14 January 2003 and renamed Regina Maria. Regina Maria was commissioned into the Romanian Navy on 21. April 2005.
HMS Boxer
HMS Boxer (F92) was the first of the Batch 2 Type 22 frigates of the Royal Navy. She was decommissioned on 4 August 1999 expended as a target in September 2004.

British tanks
dda (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: dda.
Fort Southwick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Southwick

Portsmouth Spinnaker Tower
The Spinnaker Tower is a 170m (558 ft) high tower situated in Portsmouth, United Kingdom. The tower is the centrepiece of the redevelopment of Portsmouth Harbour, which was supported by a large National Lottery grant. The tower, designed by Scott Wilson, celebrates Portsmouth's maritime tradition, a theme central to the design. After several years of delays and a massive budget overspend, it was officially opened on 18 October 2005, and is expected to draw many new tourists to the area.

Aircraft carrier propellers

HMS Invincible (R05)
The sixth and current HMS Invincible (R05) is a light aircraft carrier, the lead ship of three in her class.
She was built at Barrow-in-Furness by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering. She was laid down in 1973, and launched on 3 May 1977. The ship commissioned on July 11, 1980, and joined the older carriers Hermes and Bulwark in service. Invincible was intended for sale to the Royal Australian Navy as a replacement for HMAS Melbourne (when she would likely have been renamed HMAS Australia). However, Invincible's central role in the Falklands War led to the sale being cancelled.
After 25 years of service she sailed into Portsmouth Naval Base for the last time on 1 August 2005. HMS Illustrious succeeded Invincible as the service's flagship.

No. 9 Dock & HMS Clyde (P257)
Mike1989 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Mike1989.
HMS Clyde is the tenth ship in the Royal Navy to bear the name. She was launched on 14 June 2006 in Portsmouth Naval Base by VT Group shipbuilders in Portsmouth, England and is the fourth vessel of the River class and the first of a lengthened variety with a larger displacement of 1,850 tonnes and a 30 mm Oerlikon KCB gun in place of the 20 mm gun fitted to other River-class ships.

Charles Dickens' Birthplace
Cheesey (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Cheesey.
The house where Charles Dickens was born on February 7th, 1812, on Old Commercial Road in Portsmouth.

Fort Nelson
Fort Nelson is one of five defensive forts built on the summit of Portsdown Hill, England in 1860s, overlooking the important naval base of Portsmouth. Now fully restored, it has been part of the Royal Armouries since 1995, housing their collection of artillery, including the Great Turkish Bombard used at Dardanelles in 1464 and parts of the famous Iraqi 'Project Babylon' Gulf War-era supergun.

Palmerston Fort - Lumps Fort
Constructed in the early 19th century. Part of the fort fell into the sea later in the century and the remains are now used as a rose garden.
Lumps Fort is a disused fortification built on Portsea Island as part of the defences for the naval base at Portsmouth.
Lumps Fort dates from the time of the Napoleonic Wars. The earliest reference is in the records of the Board of Ordnance in 1805 which mention "Lumps Fort-three 32-pounder guns".
By 1822 the fort was the site of a semaphore station on the semaphore line from London to Portsmouth. It was constructed here to avoid the smog of the town of Portsmouth which would impede direct optical communications from Portsdown Hill. The fort was out of use as a defensive fort by the 1820s and in 1827 part of the fort fell into the sea. The semaphore station was closed in 1847 when the electrical telegraph took over.
The fort was reconstructed between 1859 and 1869 as one of the Palmerston forts in the line of Portsmouth Harbour defences. It became a coastal battery with two 6-inch rifled breech-loader Mk. IV guns. These guns were taken away in 1906, but the fort was rearmed in 1914. It was then a beach defence battery and was armed with a 6-pounder Hotchkiss anti-aircraft gun. At the end of the World War I, it was demolished, leaving only an outline.
Subsequently the borough created the Rose Garden in the remains of Lumps Fort. Adjacent to the site is the Canoe Lake, constructed from a large area of marshland, which was opened on 17 June 1886 and used as a boating lake. The fort also became the site of the Southsea Model Village[

HMS Stalker
Hinkkanen (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Hinkkanen.
Originally built as landing ship, tank, LST 3515 by Canadian Yarrow at Esquimalt, Canada and completed in 1945. She was renamed Stalker in 1947 and became submarine support ship in 1958 and served at Rosyth until placed on the Disposal List in 1982. She has been laid up at Portsmouth and is currently at Pounds Marine Shipping awaiting scrapping or possible restoration as she is the last surviving British-designed LST in existence. Pictures here.

Fort Wallington
The forts on Portsdown Hill were built as a result of the 1859 Royal Commission to defend the Portsmouth dockyard (which is 8 kilometres away) from a possible attack from inland, as the development of rifled gun barrels made it possible for an invading army to land elsewhere, circle around to the top of the hill and bombard the city from there, rendering the existing Hilsea lines at the bottom of the ridge useless. A series of 5 forts were planned along the 7 miles (10 km) of the ridge. From west to east they are forts Fareham, Wallington, Nelson, Southwick, Widley. The line was finished off at the eastern end with Crookhorn Redoubt and Farlington Redoubt.
Fort Wallington has been largely demolished to make way for an industrial estate.

Fort Widley
The forts on Portsdown Hill were built as a result of the 1859 Royal Commission to defend the Portsmouth dockyard (which is 8 kilometres away) from a possible attack from inland, as the development of rifled gun barrels made it possible for an invading army to land elsewhere, circle around to the top of the hill and bombard the city from there, rendering the existing Hilsea lines at the bottom of the ridge useless. A series of 5 forts were planned along the 7 miles (10 km) of the ridge. From west to east they are forts Fareham, Wallington, Nelson, Southwick, Widley. The line was finished off at the eastern end with Crookhorn Redoubt and Farlington Redoubt.
Fort Widley is owned by Portsmouth council, hosting a stable and various community rooms.

Blue Reef Auarium
The Blue Reef Aquarium at Portsmouth, formerly The Sea Life Centre, includes a large variety of different sea creatures from the solent to the waters of the Mediterranean.
From the picnic area there are views across the Solent and as the Solent is a busy shipping land with both small and large ships it can be interesting to watch.
The Blue Reef Aquarium in Portsmouth contains a number of different display with its centre piece being the Sea of Cortez which is a giant corel reef display. Some of the other displays include Otter holt, Solent coastline and Warmer waters each having its own fascinating insight into its given subject.

Hovertravel AP1-88/100 hovercraft - Isle of Wight Ferry

Fratton Park (Pompey)

British Flag
mikeb9991 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mikeb9991.

Pyramids Centre
A night club, event center, concert venue.

South Parade Pier
Southsea South Parade Pier was initially the younger of the two piers built in this popular seaside resort but, as Southsea Clarence Pier was completely rebuilt in a rather unusual manner after the war, today it is very much the more traditional in style. Designed by the Blackburn engineer R Gale this 1,950ft (591m) pier was intended for the use of passengers travelling to and from the Isle of Wight. The well-known firm of Head Wrightson were employed as the contractors, work commencing in 1875. Southsea South Parade Pier was to take a further three years to complete and was opened, amid great ceremony in November 1879, by Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar.
The life of the original privately owned pier was to be unfortunately short lived when, in 1904, a serious fire destroyed the structure, necessitating a complete re-build. Taken over by the Portsmouth Corporation the new, much shorter pier, reopened in 1908. Designed by a local entrepreneur G E Smith and built to a length of just 600ft (183m), the new pier was much more a pleasure pier than a practical landing jetty. The construction of the pier was also innovative for the time with a deck laid in concrete as opposed to the use of traditional timber. Southsea South Parade Pier remained as one of the few piers to be constructed in this manner.
The new facilities included wind-screens on all sides affording good protection from strong sea breezes. There was a large pavilion near the shoreward end that comprised of two sizeable halls. One was used as a 1,200 seat theatre, that was soon to gain a notable reputation for the quality of its performers, while the other, smaller hall, doubled as a café during the day and a dance venue in the evening. At the seaward end there was a small pavilion that incorporated a bar and lounge. These facilities were not to come cheap, the final cost of reconstruction reaching some £85,000, a significant figure for the time.
Southsea South Parade Piers history remained uneventful during the next sixty years, even surviving the heavy bombing of the port during the Second World War. Two fires in the 1960s and 1970s were however to have an impact on the structure, as it survives today. The first blaze in 1967 severely damaged the theatre to the extent that it had to be later removed. The second, more serious fire, on 11th June 1974 was during the filming of the rock-opera Tommy. Believed to have been started when a spotlight set light to some drapes, the fire soon spread out of control requiring several hundred actors, staff and extra's to be evacuated promptly, but on the whole calmly, from the scene. Over 100 firemen fought the blaze, successfully stopping it from spreading to the rest of the pier. This task, as is often the case, being made much harder by strong winds along with the age and largely timber construction of the buildings. Although much less grand, the pavilion was rebuilt at a cost of £500,000 and now houses several showbars along with the normal array amusements.

Clarence Pier Fairground

HMS Invincible
giove (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: giove.

HMS Victory - famous Nelson Chequer
tallturtle82 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: tallturtle82.
The HMS Victory is best known as the flagship of Admiral Horatio Nelson. The Victory was present at the historic and critical victories of the Battle of Cape St. Vincent and Trafalgar.
The Nelson Chequer was used by Admiral Nelson to distinguish the British ships when in the thick of battle with that of the enemies. The chequer was adopted by the Royal Navy and the US Navy adopted a similar color scheme in the War of 1812.

HMS Warrior
HMS Warrior, launched in 1860, was the world's first ocean-going iron armoured ship. Warrior and its sister ship Black Prince were at the time of their completion the most powerful warships in the world.

HMS Edinburgh (D97) Type 42 Destroyer
mlc1us (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mlc1us.

Fort Purbrook
The forts on Portsdown Hill were built as a result of the 1859 Royal Commission to defend the Portsmouth dockyard (which is 8 kilometres away) from a possible attack from inland, as the development of rifled gun barrels made it possible for an invading army to land elsewhere, circle around to the top of the hill and bombard the city from there, rendering the existing Hilsea lines at the bottom of the ridge useless. A series of 5 forts were planned along the 7 miles (10 km) of the ridge. From west to east they are forts Fareham, Wallington, Nelson, Southwick, Widley. The line was finished off at the eastern end with Crookhorn Redoubt and Farlington Redoubt.
Fort Purbrook is open occasionally for craft fairs.

palmerston Fort - Fort Southwick
Fort Southwick is one of the forts found on Portsdown Hill, which overlooks the naval base of Portsmouth in the county of Hampshire, England. It is the highest fort on the hill, and holds the water storage tanks for the other forts, supplying them via a brick lined aqueduct. Construction was started in 1861 and completed by 1870. It was designed to house a large compliment of men (about 220) in a crescent-shaped barrack block. Its north projection has one full caponier to defend the dry ditch, and has two smaller demi-caponiers at the corners. A small musketry gallery crosses the ditch at the south-west angle to cover a minor branch of the ditch. Mortar batteries of five mortars each can be found set into the rampart behind the demi caponiers.
In 1893 the fort was armed with a total of 23 guns:
* Nine 64 lb (29 kg) rifled muzzle loaders
* Eight 7 in (175 mm) rifled breech loaders
* Six 8 in (20 cm) rifled muzzle loaded howitzers (three were on ground platforms; the other three on traveling carriages)
A central spiral staircase from the surface gives access to four main tunnels running radially outward from it at uneven angles. These tunnels lead to the barrack block and caponiers, and past the magazine.
The communications "nerve centre", Underground Headquarters or UGHQ, for operation Overlord was in a secret network of tunnels located 100 ft (30 m) underneath Fort Southwick during the Second World War, well out of reach of any bombs of the era. The call sign of this base was 'MIN'.
Although disarmed in 1906, the fort was retained by the military as a barracks, and also used to train soldiers how to capture and hold a fort. It became a demobilisation centre for three years after the First World War. The fort was part of the Admiralty Research Establishment until 2002, when all operational use of the fort ceased. It was sold by the Ministry of Defence in July 2003 to the "Fort Southwick Company Limited", who intend to convert the barrack block into luxury apartments.

HMS M33
HMS M33 is a M29-class monitor of the Royal Navy built in 1915 as part of the rapid ship construction campaign following the outbreak of World War I. She became a mine-laying training ship in 1925 and was renamed HMS Minerva. In 1946 she became a floating office and was designated "Hulk C23". Put up for sale in 1984, she eventually passed to Hampshire County Council and is now located at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, close to HMS Victory.

HMS Rame Head (F34)
Repair Ship of the Beachy Head class

D-Day Museum
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.

Portsmouth - Isle of Wight Ferry
Tight squeeze! I wonder how offten that quayside to the west jumps out and hits the ferry?

Brittany Ferries 'Normandie'
mlc1us (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mlc1us.

Grosvenor Casino
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.

Spitbank Fort
alfjon (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: alfjon.

'HSC Normandie Express' Brittany Ferries
adrbr (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: adrbr.

WWI and WWII War Memorials
It looks like a festival is being set up around the park. Lots of tents.
From the plaque on the monument:
"This memorial commemorates officers ranks and ratings of this Port who died at sea during the wars 1914-1918 and 1939-1945. Actions in which they fought are recorded in the registers and on the memorial itself
Similar memorials at Plymouth and Chatham commemorate men and women of those manning ports while merchant seamen who died from enemy action and have no grave but the sea are commemorated in Liverpool and at Tower Hill in London. The names of those who died during the Second World War whilst serving in the Royal Naval Patrol Service or the Fleet Air Arm and whose graves are unknown are respectively on memorials at Lowestoft and at Lee on-the-Solent.
Other memorials, at Halifax and Victoria in Canada, at Auckland in New Zealand, at Bombay in India, at Chittagong in Bangladesh and at Hong Kong commemorate sailors who came from those parts of the Commonwealth while the Newfounland Memorial at Beaumont Hamel in France bears the names of 229 Newfoundland sailors lost at sea during the First World War.
Of the 24,588 men and women whose names are on this monument 9,666 died during the First World War and 14,922 including 75 from Newfoundland who served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. All were buried at sea or were otherwise denied by the fortunes of war, a known and honoured grave.
THIS MEMORIAL WAS BUILT AND IS MAINTAINED BY
THE COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION
ARCHITECT - SIR ROBERT LORIMER SCULPTOR - HENRY POOLE
1939-1945 EXTENSION
ARCHITECT - SIR EDWARD MAUFE SCULPTOR - SIR CHARLES WHEELER"

Mary Rose Ship Hall
Museum hall at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard that houses the preserved wreck of Mary Rose, built in 1509-10, one of the earliest purpose-built warships to serve in the English navy. She sank accidentally in 1545 at The Battle of the Solent. The wreck was located in 1971 and raised in 1982.

Portsmouth Cathedral
Portsmouth Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral of Portsmouth, United Kingdom. It is a mixture of elements from the 12th, 17th and 20th centuries. Transepts and sanctuary were parts of the medieval church built 1188-96, nave and tower were rebuilt late 17th century after damage in civil war with the cupola added in 1703. Modern nave and aisles were started in 1935 but the work was stopped in 1939 and not restarted until 1990. In 1991 the completed building, much smaller than the original plans envisaged, was consecrated in the presence of HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

Flea market in Portsmouth
DonMartini (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: DonMartini.

M4 Sherman Tank
The M4 Sherman, formally Medium Tank, M4, was the primary tank used by the United States during World War II. It was also distributed to the Allies via lend-lease. Evolved from previous medium and light tanks, it was the first American medium tank with the main gun mounted on a fully traversing turret.
Production of the M4 medium tank exceeded 50,000 units and its chassis served as the basis for numerous other armored vehicles such as tank destroyers, tank retrievers, and self-propelled artillery. Only the Soviet T-34 tank was produced in larger numbers.

Palmerston Fort - Fort Cumberland
Cumberland has a unique place in the history of fortifications. It was the last bastioned fort built in the UK, and the first to incorporate casemates in the curtain walls to house the garrison. It is the most impressive example of eighteenth century defensive architecture in England, and perhaps the best preserved example in Europe.

UK Submarine
gamma (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: gamma.

Royal Navy ship in drydock

Churchill Crocodile
The Churchill Crocodile was a British flame-throwing tank of late World War II. A variant of the Tank, Infantry, Mk VI (A22) Churchill Mark VII, although the Churchill Mark IV was initially chosen to be the base vehicle.
It was introduced as one of the specialised armoured vehicles developed under Major-General Percy Hobart and known as one of "Hobart's Funnies". It was produced from October 1943, just in time for the Normandy invasion though no units saw action on the first day.

Gun in front of D-Day Museum

P&O Lines ship 'Challenger'
gamma (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: gamma.

People playing soccer

WightLink Ferries
A auto ferry and a high speed ferry.

Akita Inu
The Akita Inu is a Japanese breed of large dog. Named for Akita Prefecture, where it is thought to have originated, it is sometimes called the Akita-ken based on the Sino-Japanese reading of the same kanji. In most countries (with the exception of the American and Canadian Kennel Clubs), it is considered a separate breed from the American Akita, as requested by the Japanese Kennel Club. "Inu" means "dog."

HMS Westminster (F237)
neotrix (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: neotrix.

Round Tower
The Round Tower was built between 1418 and 1426, overlooking the entrance to the harbour. The Square Tower adjoining was erected in 1494 and built up in the mid 19th century. Long Curtain and Kings Bastion defences were added in the 17th century but only a part, close by the shore, remains as the rest has been built over.

Remains of the Portsmouth Corporation Tramway
Drudii (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Drudii.
The tramway in Portsmouth was opened 24th September 1901 and closed 10th November 1936.
Later on trolleybuses would replace the trams for the first time on the Soutn Parade Pier to Cosham route on the 4th August 1934 this was then followed by replacement of the trams on other routes too. Portsmouth Corporation Transport continued to operate the trolleybuses until 27 July 1963, after which it continued as a bus operator until 1988, when it was privatised.
The original trams and trolleybuses can be seen in different transport museums around Britain. Small sections of the original track can also still be seen embedded in the road.

Wightlink ferry manuvering
TexasAndroid (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: TexasAndroid.

Low Tide
mlc1us (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mlc1us.

Longbow
gamma (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: gamma.

LARC-60 Amphibious Vehicles
The LARC-60 transports wheeled and tracked vehicles, including beach preparation equipment and general cargo from ship to shore or to inland transfer points. It is the only amphibian in the Army inventory, and the only vessel capable of landing on a beach through a breaking surf. The LARC-60 can be deck-loaded on a commercial vessel or heavy lift ship for transport overseas. It can be transported on a semi-submersible vessel, in the well deck of an LSD, or aboard a SEABEE.
Characteristics and capabilities include the following:
* Length overall: 63 feet.
* Beam: 27 feet.
* Displacement (weight): 88 LTONs (light).
* Deck area: 527 square feet.
* Payload: 60 tons.
* Range: land, 60-ton load, 150 statue miles at 14 MPH; water, 60-ton load, 75 nautical miles at 6 knots.
* Draft: 7.5 feet (light); 9 feet (loaded).

Portsea Island
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.
Most densely populated of the British Isles

HMS York
maveriick (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: maveriick.

HMS Gloucester (D96)
bubaonline (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: bubaonline.
switch to east to see the left side of the ship and you'll see the D96.
'My' LiveMaps only post the north-view

Royal Garrison Church
Royal Garrison Church was constructed c. 1212 as a hospital. Although the church was badly damaged in a 1941 fire-bomb raid on Portsmouth, the chancel was saved.

Offshore platforms of unknown type
Anyone know what these are? Were they WWII gun platforms at one time?

Royal Marines Museum
The Royal Marines Museum is located in Eastney (Portsmouth), England, and is open to the public every day of the week throughout the year apart from Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. A registered charity, it is also a designated museum under the terms of the National Heritage Act 1983 and an executive non-departmental public body by virtue of receiving Grant-in-Aid from the Ministry of Defence.
Established in October 1958, the Museum represents a complete history of the Royal Marines from their beginnings in 1664 through to the present day. Highlights of the Museum include the Medal Room, with over 8000 medals on show (including all 10 Victoria Crosses awarded to the Corps) and, as of June 2008, The Making of the Royal Marines Commando exhibition, a major display highlighting the demands of the 32-week training course undertaken by all Royal Marines recruits.

Palmerston Fort - Browndown Battery
Browndown Battery was built on the site of two earlier 1852 gun batteries wit 21 guns. It was equipped with two 12.5" RML guns until 1904 when these were replaced by two 9.2" BL guns but the battery ws closed in 1905.

HMS Warrior
HMS Warrior was the first iron-hulled, armor-plated warship, built for the Royal Navy in response to the first ironclad warship, the French La Gloire, launched a year earlier.
When completed in October 1861, Warrior was by far the largest, fastest, most heavily-armed and most heavily-armored warship the world had ever seen. She was almost twice the size of La Gloire and thoroughly outclassed the French ship in speed, armor, and gunnery.
Warrior did not introduce any radical new technology, but for the first time combined steam engines, rifled breech-loading guns, iron construction, iron armor, and propeller drive all in one ship, and built to unprecedented scale.
Her construction started intense competition between guns and armour that lasted until air power made battleships obsolete in the Second World War. This race caused her to quickly become obsolete, and she was withdrawn as a fighting unit in May 1883. Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, Core Collection, she is now a museum ship in Portsmouth, United Kingdom.

Brittany Ferries Catamaran

'Jackstar' by Richard Farrington
pmoore66 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: pmoore66.
2001

Anchor

Lord Nelson statue
Matheus_ (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Matheus_.
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, KB (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was a flag officer famous for his service in the Royal Navy, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars. He was noted for his inspirational leadership and superb grasp of strategy and unconventional tactics, which resulted in a number of decisive naval victories. He was wounded several times in combat, losing one arm and the sight in one eye. Of his several victories, the best known and notable was the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, during which he was shot and killed.

Map Mural

The Red, White & Blue pub
neotrix (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: neotrix.
PUB landlady Karen Murphy has won her European court battle against the Premier League over the use of a foreign TV decoder to screen games.
The European Court of Justice said an exclusive system of licences for the broadcasting of football matches in different EU countries - effectively stopping fans watching the broadcasts with a decoder card in other member states - is “contrary to EU law

HMS Richmond (F239)

AP1-88/100 Hovercraft at Hovertravel Isle of Wight ferry terminal

The Ship Anson Pub
LancelotLink (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: LancelotLink.

Football (Soccer) Game in Progress

Ship propeller

Twin Trains

International maritime signal flags

Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, Portsmouth
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.

Stokes Bay Battery

Type 45 destroyer
Rene73 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Rene73.

Portsmouth FC logo
Matheus_ (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Matheus_.

'The Trimast' by HGP Architects
pmoore66 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: pmoore66.
2001
aka Sails of the South

Boat planter

Ambulance
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.

SouthSea Arch & Sculptures
QwertyKPH (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: QwertyKPH.
Roundabout with arch and four sculptures

HMS Prince of Wales
pak555 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: pak555.
HMS Prince of Wales is the second Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier. Not fitted with catapults and arrestor wires, and is designed to operate V/STOL aircraft, up to 40 F-35B Lightning II.
Displacement: 65,000 tonnes (64,000 long tons; 72,000 short tons)
Beam: 39 m (128 ft)(waterline), 73 m (240 ft) overall
Draught: 11 metres

Anchor
WacoKidd110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: WacoKidd110.

East Side Plaza
Tallest building in Portsmouth

Mary Rose Museum
pak555 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: pak555.
The museum is dedicated to the 16th-century Tudor navy warship Mary Rose as well as the historical context in which she was active. The museum opened in 1984.