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Press Release HMS Victory 21st Century Museum Story Napoleonic Ships and Aircraft

HMS Victory invites visitors inside bold new phase of £42m conservation project

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Chatterboxes – Connection and Conversations with HMS Victory

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Jane Austen and the Royal Navy

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Blog Submarine Service Second World War Navy Organisation Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat: HMS Seraph's Lieutenant “Bill” Jewell

The secret operations of the submarine HMS Seraph in the Second World War are legendary. But who is the man who commanded HMS Seraph?

Blog Submarine Service Second World War Navy Organisation Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat: HMS Seraph's Lieutenant Leslie ‘Mickey’ Budd

One of HMS Seraph’s crew was a very well-known Gosport figure. Any submariner serving in Fort Blockhouse knew the name ‘Mickey Budd’, and he went on…

Blog Submarine Service Second World War Navy Organisation Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat: HMS Seraph’s Special Operations And “The Man Who Never Was”

HMS Seraph’s clandestine operations during the Second World War are legendary. One of the most famous is Operation Mincemeat and in 1956 the story…

A group of Night Hunters in front of the ship badge for HMS Hornet.
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The Night Hunters: The Royal Navy's Coastal Forces at War

Little-known story of the Royal Navy’s heroic coastal forces in both World Wars told for the first time in major new gallery at Explosion Museum of…