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Portsmouth
HMS Warrior
HMS Warrior is now permanently docked in Portsmouth; she built as part of a response to the French who were ship-building on a great scale, including the modern iron-clad ships. Warrior was the finest ship yet built, and rendered what the French had built obsolete and was the largest ship in the world at that time. […]
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The missing link? Almost!
My grandfather’s family had lived for many generations on the south coast of England, settling eventually in Littlehampton in Sussex where some cousins still live even today. My grandfather’s brother, Wilfred Henry, married a young woman Edith May Kinch, who had been born and brought up in Portsmouth where my husband’s family, the Sparshotts come from. Edith’s father Edwin was a shipwright working […]
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Lois Elsden 