International Boatbuilding Training College portsmouth

The site is very pleasing. This alone can convince one joining the training school. The good part was they are very keen on safety

Having visited this dockyard in August and September 2017, it brought back many memories for me having sailed out from there in 1963 on H.M.S. Venus to the Azores. I was then a Cook in the Royal Navy serving at H.M.S Ganges in Suffolk. It was a cold winter day then and I was over the side of the ship scrubbing it clean before we sailed. Arriving at the entrance it was a bit disconcerting to see the queues of people waiting to get in. The queue took 40 minutes to allow where I was to arrive at the ticket gate. A bag search told me I was to leave my Monopod with them for safe keeping at the ticket office. This also applies to Tripods for camera equipment so remember this. Next ship I saw was H.M.S. Victory which is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, this was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is best known as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. In 1922, she was moved to a dry dock at Portsmouth and preserved as a museum. She has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012 and is the world's oldest naval ship which is still in commission. This the world’s most famous warship HMS Victory is crumbling under her own weight now after many years of wear and tear. An 18-month programme to bring this historic ship back to its original condition has now commenced. H.M.S. Victory has been sitting in dry dock in Portsmouth since 1922 supported by 22 steel cradles. It has been well recorded that the 252 year old ship is collapsing ( so to speak ) under her own weight and following a detailed laser scan of billions of measurements and computer modelling, a new support system has been designed to record how the ship would sit in water when completed. Another ship I went to visit was HMS M.33 which is the only sole remaining British veteran of the bloody Dardanelles Campaign of 1915 -1916, and also the Russian Civil War which followed. The ship is one of just three British warships from World War I still in existence. HMS M.33 was built in 1915 on the orders of the First Lord of the Admiralty the then Winston Churchill. She was a floating gun platform designed to bombard and decimate coastal positions from the sea. She served in the Mediterranean for the remainder of the War and was involved in the seizure of the Greek fleet at Salamis Bay in 1916. The Mary Rose Museum is run by the Mary Rose Trust. Please note this exhibit is now a separate entity to the rest of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and a separate charge is now made to see this exhibit.The construction has been a challenging task since it emerged from the sea after many years a sunken wreck because the museum has been built over the ship in the dry dock, which is now a listed monument. During construction of the museum, conservation of the hull continued inside a sealed building specially made to house this ship. In April 2013, the polyethylene glycol sprays were turned off and the process of controlled air drying began. In 2016 the hotbox walls were removed and after reopening on 20 July 2016 the ship is currently on display behind glass. This new museum displays most of the artefacts and items recovered from within the ship. Since the opening, it has been visited by over a million people. 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. The Mary Rose is a Tudor ship that was built in 1510. In service for 34 years, it sank in 1545 and then discovered in 1971 and was raised in 1982.

Fantastic. Well worth a visit. Great smell of wood. If you're into boat building then this is a real must. Looking down at the 'factory floor' there are real skills at work. Friendly staff. Easy access.

Was interesting looking down in to the workshop. Walked through to access the restaurant. ... which was average, but nice views over harbour. The tours looked interesting from a distance. Also think it is more for apprentices and children. Some activities for kids and big kids upstairs