Under HMS Victory! Andy's Day at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

Come along with Andy for a day at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, where he ends up standing underneath the whole of HMS Victory in her dry dock! We start on little HMS M.33, explore HMS Victory and the Mary Rose, and save the biggest of our four ships, HMS Warrior, for last. On the way Andy discovers that HMS M.33 even had a ship's cat, Miss Muggins, sees why Victory needs her big repair and finds out what people took aboard the Mary Rose. A costumed interpreter on HMS Victory tries to recruit him, and on HMS Warrior he is offered a job in the boiler room for £36 a year. Would you take it? CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard 0:28 HMS M.33: life aboard a small ship 2:19 HMS Victory under restoration 2:59 Mary Rose Museum: a sunken Tudor ship 3:46 What did people bring aboard? 4:10 Handling table and a Henry VIII duck 4:55 Aboard HMS Victory: two steering wheels 5:56 A job aboard HMS Victory? 7:15 Beneath HMS Victory in the dry dock 7:49 HMS Warrior, saved for last 8:31 Why so many steering wheels? 9:37 Hundreds of sailors in one room? 10:09 A boiler-room job for £36 a year 10:29 Anchor chain, captain's cabin, laundry 11:47 HMS Warrior's engine and boiler rooms 12:31 Goodbye beside HMS Warrior ABOUT THE SHIPS HMS M.33 was built in 1915 and served in the Gallipoli campaign. She is the only surviving Royal Navy ship from that campaign. HMS Victory, launched in 1765, was Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. She has been in dry dock in Portsmouth since 1922 and is the world's oldest commissioned warship. She is in the middle of a long conservation project, with rotten timbers being replaced with new oak. The Mary Rose was Henry VIII's warship. She sank in 1545 during the Battle of the Solent and was raised in 1982. The museum shows what survives of her hull, with thousands of objects recovered from the wreck. HMS Warrior, launched in 1860, was Britain's first iron-hulled, armoured battleship, powered by both steam and sail. Costumed interpreters bring her 1860s crew to life. THE MONEY FIGURES IN THE BOILER-ROOM SCENE £36 a year is the interpreter's offer, close to a Royal Navy stoker's standard pay in the 1861 regulations (£36 10s a year); the museum recreates life aboard Warrior in 1863. About £4,100 is that £36 in today's prices (Bank of England inflation calculator, 1863 to September 2026; prices, not wages). The £200 London house is the interpreter's own example. £554,000 is the average price of a London home (UK House Price Index, August 2026, provisional). Filmed in August 2026. Plan your own visit: https://historicdockyard.co.uk/ Music from the YouTube Audio Library: Sunny Travel by Nico Staf Evil Bodega by Adam MacDougall Which ship would you explore first: little HMS M.33, HMS Victory, the Mary Rose or HMS Warrior? Tell us in the comments! Subscribe to Journeys with Andy for more days out and travel adventures. #HMSVictory #PortsmouthHistoricDockyard #HMSWarrior