Each week for class, we have to do a walk around a certain area of town. This time is was a place called Greenwich. It had a cool museum there that had the history of ships, captains, sailors, etc. One thing I found interesting were some of the actual coats worn by actual captains in the 1700s and 1800s.
This coat had the coolest story. There was this whole exhibit about a man named Nelson and the story of how he became captain of his ship and his experiences as a captain. When he was a flag-officer, his ship called The Victory received heavy musket fire as it approached enemy ships at Trafalgar. At 1:15 p.m., Nelson was hit in the shoulder by a musket ball fired from the top of the French ship Redoutable. It shattered his shoulder, punctured his lung and lodge in his spine...
…but the cool thing is the hole can be seen on the left should of his uniform as you can kind of see from the below picture. Nelson knew immediately it was a fatal injury. Moments after he was hit he told a fellow sailor, "They have done for me at last, my backbone is shot through." I don't know why but I just thought this was the coolest thing ever.
Oh, and part of his right arm had to be amputated in another earlier incident so that's why the sleeve is pinned to his chest.
We also found out that movies such as Thor 2 and Les Miserables was filmed here. I was excited because I remember exactly what scene from Thor was made here. Between those two buildings across the field is where it was made.
This is Kenzie, Kate, Rachel, and me standing in the museum impersonating how Captains stand. I think we did a pretty good job haha.
This is also the place where the Prime Meridian (zero degrees longitude) is. We stood at the beginning of the world.
Some of my professor's kids got in the picture. He has 9 children total. Pretty crazy
