I've been aboard her myself, back around 1982. She's small in comparison to modern warships, but the history can't be matched. When you go down to the orlop deck where Nelson died:
It's hard to repress a shiver. The orlop shown in the painting is not drawn accurately, either; in the ship itself the overhead timbers are so low as to make tall men stoop.
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Kiss me, Hardy.
Heh
But it's worth the trip.
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