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Tidal Teatime Exchange Project brings artefacts’ history to life
Recently the National Museum of the Royal Navy has worked with community group Chat Over Chai and the Royal Navy’s Equality and Diversity Team.The…
Become the Ultimate Explorer this summer at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
With the school holidays fast approaching, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is geared up to give visitors a summer to remember as they embark on a…
Victory Live: The Big Repair
Get under the skin of HMS Victory in our latest visitor experience Victory Live: The Big Repair. Learn about the once-in-a-lifetime project to fight…
‘Mavericks’ invited to get up close with Fleet Air Arm Museum’s new Carrier Experience landing this summer
With fans all over the world delighting in the return of Tom Cruise in the recent ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ film, the Fleet Air Arm Museum is captivating…
Attention! Free Armed Forces Day event this Saturday
Head to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard from 10am - 4pm on Saturday 25 June for free activities and entertainment to mark Portsmouth Armed Forces Day.
Huge boost to expansion plans for National Museum of the Royal Navy Hartlepool with acquisition of retail park
Ambitious plans for the expansion of the National Museum of the Royal Navy Hartlepool (NMRN Hartlepool) have received a huge boost today, Tuesday…
Major new conservation phase for HMS Victory with once-in-a-generation visitor experience
Modern-day Great Repair offers once-in-a-generation opportunity to see under the skin of a First-Rate ship of the line and tell her story in a…
Key moment from the Falklands conflict recalled in day-long free event at the National Museum of the Royal Navy
Forty years to the day since Portsmouth-based County Class Destroyer HMS Antrim entered San Carlos Water to start the landing operations to retake…
Falklands 40: Key naval dates April 1982
Friday 2 April 1982 marked the start of the Falklands and here we look at some of the key naval dates over the first month of the conflict.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal Visits Unique D-Day Survivor LCT 7074
The National Museum of the Royal Navy is delighted to announce that Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal visited unique D-Day survivor LCT 7074 at…
Falklands 40: Talk Recounts Key Role of Falkland Helicopter Crew 40 Years to the Day
The powerful recollections of a helicopter crew involved in the opening actions of the Falklands Conflict 40 years ago is the subject of a very…
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…
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?
Operation Mincemeat: The Jolly Roger of HMS Seraph
Flying the Jolly Roger Flag when coming into harbour was a long-standing tradition for British submarines in the Second World War. First instituted…
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…
New Exhibition Launch: Her Majesty’s Service
Touching tribute to Her Majesty's decades of personal and official service to Royal Navy captured by new exhibition