HMS Warrior

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Arrived in England without any incidents. I didn't arrive early enough to catch the early train, so walked the peer head station rather than the town centre one. It was early on a Sunday morning so it was easy to maintain my social distance.

At the hard I took this picture of HMS Warrior. According to Wikipedia: "HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate built for the Royal Navy in 1859-1861. It was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior and its sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching in 1859 of the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the wooden-hulled Gloire. Warrior conducted a publicity tour of Great Britain in 1863 and spent its active career with the Channel Squadron. Obsolescent following the 1871 launching of the mastless and more capable HMS Devastation, it was placed in reserve in 1875, and was decommissioned in 1883. "

After loitering at the station for a while I took a train and was met by my friend in north Hampshire. The train wasn't busy and I managed to keep my distance. Originally I had planned to go north to Manchester today, but I changed my plan and stayed with my friends in Hampshire and did IT things. My mate had a long list of Linux niggles, which I fixed in no time at all.