HMS Victory
Museum · Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, still a commissioned Royal Navy ship, sits in dry dock in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
An island city whose historic dockyard holds HMS Victory, the Mary Rose and HMS Warrior, with a harbour-front tower and a seaside resort on the same shore.
From King's Cross St Pancras: 2 h 11 min by train · 2 h 36 min by car
Travel times by TravelTime
Time there: 11.5–18.5 h to see all 13 places
Get directionsPortsmouth Historic Dockyard keeps Nelson's HMS Victory, the Tudor warship Mary Rose and the Victorian ironclad HMS Warrior together on one site.
The 170-metre Spinnaker Tower has viewing decks at 100, 105 and 110 metres, a glass floor on the lowest, and views of up to 37 kilometres across the city and its harbours.
Southsea's seafront has a Henry VIII fort with a lighthouse, two piers including the Clarence Pier amusement park, and the D-Day Story museum with its 83-metre Overlord Embroidery.
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