Buckler’s Hard, Historic Riverside Village

[carojon]

A few weeks ago, I travelled up to Buckler's Hard 18th Century Shipbuilding Village on the banks of the River Beaulieu in the New Forest, Hampshire.



Shipbuilding at Buckler's Hard commenced in the early eighteenth century and under Master Shipwright Henry Adams, Buckler's Hard grew to national prominence winning many Royal Navy contracts.



Over the following sixty years, Adams would supervise the building of forty-three Royal Navy ships at Buckler's Hard, including three that fought at the Battle of Trafalgar, HMS Euryalus 36- guns, HMS Swiftsure 74-guns, and HMS Agamemnon, ‘Nelson's favourite ship' of 64-guns.



If you would like to know more then follow the link to JJ's, where I've put together a post covering our day's visit, including among other things a look at the river location, the historic village and the Maritime Museum, together with some of the famous named ships built there.

https://jjwargames.blogspot.com/2024/07/bucklers-hard-eighteenth-century.html

JJ

[Tactalvanic]

Really nice write-up.

I need to go get a coffee to finish reading through!

Thankyou 

[Tom Dulski]

 wow that's a impressive little museum.

[Citizen Sade]

Great report. It’s an interesting place to visit or stay for a couple of days. There are other things of interest in the vicinity e.g. Secret Army (SOE) exhibition & National Motor Museum in Beaulieu.

[tomrommel1]

What a nice blog post thank you !!