Though tranquillity is the byword at Bembridge, life was not always so peaceful. During World War II, the southeast part of the site was rented to the Admiralty as a land-based warship.
Nicknamed HMS Blazer, the structure billetted some 250 men and stored arms and mobile radar equipment. Not that you’d know it today, as you lie back in the Isle of Wight sun and enlist the kind of service and hospitality only a Warner hotel can provide.