Among international museums, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is famous for being an outstanding maritime history centre. This proved to be no exaggeration. All through the weekend, the number of English visitors to the sea Stallion rose steadily. It culminated on Sunday with warm sunshine and thousands of English people and tourists at the enormous Royal Naval Museum.
The Sea Stallion was in the place of honour beside Queen Victoria’s warship, HMS Warrior, 1860, and that obviously helped to create further interest for the Danish Viking ship in a museum area with many other impressive attractions on offer, such as Lord Nelson’s flagship, HMS Victory. By Sunday lunchtime, the floating landing stage where the Sea Stallion was moored was packed and visitors were shown round on board by the crew the whole time.
“The Royal Naval Museum is really geared up to handling the job of presenting the Sea Stallion in England. In addition to being able to display the ship, the Viking Ship Museum has also had the opportunity to set up an exhibition about the project in the museum area. And we have also strengthened our collaboration with the maritime museums in Portsmouth,” says the director of the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Tinna Damgaard.
The “Sea Stallion from Glendalough” plans to set sail from Portsmouth tomorrow at 1 pm British time to head on east up the English Channel.