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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…

Child on board HMS Alliance
Press Release Museum Teams Museum Story Museum behind the scenes

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
Press Release HMS Victory Napoleonic Ships and Aircraft

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…

Artist impression of the new flight deck
Press Release Aircraft 21st Century Ships and Aircraft

‘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…

Armed Forces Day Banner - June 25
Press Release Ceremonial Remembrance 21st Century Culture, Sport and Leisure

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.

The proposed interior of a new naval gallery at the National Museum of the Royal Navy Hartlepool.
Press Release Collections Conservation 21st Century Museum behind the scenes

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…

HMS Victory surrounded by protective scaffolding.
Blog HMS Victory Napoleonic Ships and Aircraft

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…

A Royal Naval destroyer with smoke billowing out of it from an attack.
Press Release Battles Late 20th Century War and Peace

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…

Composite image showing scenes from the Falklands.
Blog Battles Operations Cold War Early 20th Century War and Peace

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.

Press Release LCT 7074 Second World War Ships and Aircraft

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…

Composite image showing speakers for talk on the Falklands conflict.
Press Release Aircraft Late 20th Century Ships and Aircraft

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…

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 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: 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…

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 young Queen Elizabeth visiting a Naval base surrounded by Naval officers and press.
Press Release Customs and Traditions Royalty 21st Century Culture, Sport and Leisure

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