Boathouse 6 - Action Stations (Portsmouth)

 historical building, adventure/activity centre

Boathouse 6 was designed by Lieutenant Roger Beatson, Royal Engineers, Portsmouth Dockyard’s Superintendent of Civil Engineering Work, and built between 1845 and 1848. It was used for the building, repair and storage of small ships’ boats. These were pulled up one of the three slipways outside the front of the building from the Mast Pond by hand using block and tackle, and then brought into the building through large wooden doors. Some of the rings used still survive along the front of the building and set into the ground floor. The building was in use as a boathouse until the Portsmouth Blitz in March 1941, when a bomb destroyed much of the rear part. A temporary patch was added to make the building serviceable and was not replaced until the conversion into Action Stations in the late 1990s.

www.historicdockyard.co.uk/dockyard/historiclandmarks.p...

Action Stations experiences: physical challenges, simulators, technological experiments; one of the largest climging towers in Europe; interaction gallery; Laser Quest

www.historicdockyard.co.uk/actionstations/
www.actionstations.org/