They've tried to make this venue as accessible as possible - top marks!
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5
Date of visit: March 2026
I have experience of challenges around: moving around
I use or have experience of: wheelchair
Overall Rating
Excellent
For an exhibit of it's age they have gone to great lengths to make it accessible. The best feature is the volunteer staff, the gentleman working when we visited assisted us getting onto the ship (there is a ramp but a little bit steep to get up and then you fly down the other side. You can get around the decks quite easily, but not in some of the rooms unless you get out of the wheelchair. There are a couple of lifts which take you up onto the decks - they are quite small but we managed the wheelchair and 2 people in the lift, and you have to hold the lever all of the time to get the lift to move. It's also possible to go down beneath the hull of the ship again in a lift. My only criticism would be that the doors on the lift are very heavy so it's quite difficult to open the door and push the wheelchair out but the volunteer realised the issue and accompanied us when we wanted to go around areas with issues such as doors. There are cobbles outside but there is a sign for a cobble free route to the entrance which is great. They seem to have thought of everything. Entrance was free for the carer too. I highly recommend a visit - very interesting and more accessible than you would expect for a ship of this age.
