When most people talk about home they are usually referring to bricks and mortar, but not Jennifer Towey. Jennifer's first home was on board HMS Warrior which was moored off Llanion Pill by Waterloo Point from 1929 until 1979.

The Warrior had been the pride of the British fleet, being its first iron clad warship, but in 1929 it was decided to de-commission the ship and strip out the boilers, generators and all other equipment, both above and below decks, so that all that was left was the hull.

The hull was then towed around from Portsmouth to Pembroke Dock where it had a new lease of life as a floating oil fuel pontoon for all manner of ships. The oil fuel depot needed staff to maintain it so Mr. Bill James, an ex-Royal Navy Petty Officer, and his family, moved on board and had living accommodation on the poop deck.

Jennifer's grandfather, Ronald Colley, was then appointed as the stoker harbourman. Her grandfather's job was to connect the hoses from the fuel depot on land to the ships for refuelling. The hoses followed a 1,200 feet tunnel from the fuel depot at Llanion to the Warrior floating pontoon.

Jennifer's grandfather and his family used this tunnel as an ad hoc air raid shelter during the bombing of Pembroke Dock during the Second World War.

Jennifer's parents also lived on the Warrior for a short time after their marriage in St. John's Church in Pembroke Dock and during a shopping trip to town one day her mother felt unwell and went back to the ship to relax... not for long, though, as she realised she was going into labour and there was no time to get to the hospital. So on May 27, 1950, Jennifer became the first and only child (so far!) to have been born on this iconic ship.

Jennifer remembers running up and down the deck playing with her cousin - no health and safety rules then! The children also had a swing on the lower deck. Jennifer's mother, Mrs. Waitimas, used to fish for bass and other fish through the port holes in their accommodation.

A few years later the family moved onshore to one of the new prefabs which had been built in Bufferland.

As an adult in 1979, Jennifer was sad to see the Warrior leave Pembroke Dock for Hartlepool where the ship was to be restored. However, in April 1988, she was invited to the official re-opening of The Warrior in Portsmouth Harbour and was presented with a signed copy of a book recounting the story of this wonderful ship.