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Portsmouth Navy Days, 2010
Gunny
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Posted: Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 12:32 AM UTC
MSW crew-mates Peter Fulgoney (peterf) and Rob Kernaghan (rkernaghan) took a recent trip to the Portsmouth Navy Days event that ran from July 30, to August 1, 2010, and compiled this fine batch of images to share with us!

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If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!
~Gunny
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Posted: Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 03:20 AM UTC
Jammy bugger the last open day when I was on the IOW was on a Saturday, and we were going home Friday morning, completely missed out, from your photo's, it looked like a great day, and thank you for sharing.
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Posted: Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 03:55 AM UTC
Damn, that would be a must see if visiting the UK.
Thanks for the great photos.
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Posted: Sunday, August 15, 2010 - 09:50 PM UTC
Went with my son's Sea Cadet unit, it was a great day, managed to get on board HMS Dauntless & HMS Westminster & took some of the kids over HMS Victory. Those type 45's are impressive ships close up!.

The Historic dockyard needs more than a day to get round it on a normal day, let alone when there are current warships to get on board.

Highly recommended at any time.

Si
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Posted: Monday, August 16, 2010 - 12:54 AM UTC
I am very jealous. Looks like a great day was had by all...Cheers Mark
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Posted: Monday, August 16, 2010 - 02:23 AM UTC
It sure looks like a perfect way to spend a weekend!!!
Portsmouth and Gosport (Submarine Museum and Explosion Museum) are on my Places to Visit....

Thank you for sharing, Peter and Rob!
Cheers,
Rui
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Posted: Monday, August 16, 2010 - 05:06 AM UTC
Nice feature piece Unfortunately, as I go to Plymouth in July every year, Navy Day in Devonport is held (naturally enough in June)

Of the two though, Pompey is probably a lot more interesting than Guz...
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Posted: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 03:55 AM UTC
A great pleasure to try and explain a brief snapshot of what Portsmouth has to offer, and yes it would take much longer to complete a comprehensive view of all the exhibits, Rob K was hustling us all along to try and see all the ships, and after HMS Argos, we climed to the top fighting our way through the crowds, we had had enough, and headed for home.

Good company with Rob, and the team altough Rob wanted to play with every searchlight, and gatling gun as we wondered around the various public deck areas, just like a 9 year old!

Thank you to Mark "Gunny" for enhamcing the text, and adding some weight to the explanation, it now reads like a prpoer report, and conclusion.

Peter F
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