Happy New Year! Got out for a short #InTheSaddle ride, and saw HMS Daring moored at the Pier Head after some work at Cammel Laird's.
@amcewen looks like it has its own climbing walls on that big tower - how nice of them to think of a recreation activity for the sailors!
@jamesjefferies maybe the send new recruits up it when they first arrive?
That reminds me of reading The Last Grain Race, where Eric Newby recounted deciding to go to sea and getting sent up the rigging as soon as he turned up, to see how he'd get on