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One of the south coast's cross-Channel ferry ports, Portsmouth is also the command centre of the Royal Navy. Alongside today's fighting ships lies the venerated, and now restored HMS Victory, Admiral Lord Nelson's flagship from the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar. HMS Warrior, the world's first iron-hulled warship, is another 19th century man-o'-war tied up along the harbour quayside, though its guns were never fired in anger. Both of these old campaigners are open to the public with the sea story made complete with a visit to the Royal Navy Museum. Celebrated novelist Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth in 1812; the great man's birthplace is now a museum dedicated to his memory.
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