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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

A 3D visualisation of the scaffolded stern of HMS Victory.
Blog HMS Victory 21st Century Napoleonic Ships and Aircraft

Chatterboxes – Connection and Conversations with HMS Victory

A box full of nautical items open on a table.
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Jane Austen and the Royal Navy

A mother and two children sit outside HMS Victory, a wooden ship.

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Cabot Tower, Signal Hill, St John's, the signal station in Newfoundland.
Blog Specialisms Units & Squadrons Interwar Navy Organisation British Special Service Squadron

British Special Service Squadron - September 1924

In this final instalment of the blog series, the National Museum of the Royal Navy follows the final movements of the British Special Service…

Quebec - August 1924
Blog Specialisms Units & Squadrons Interwar Navy Organisation British Special Service Squadron

British Special Service Squadron - August 1924

In this ongoing blog series, the National Museum of the Royal Navy is following the route of the British Special Service Squadron during the…

A plaza in Peru at night.
Blog Specialisms Units & Squadrons Interwar Navy Organisation British Special Service Squadron

British Special Service Squadron – July 1924

In this ongoing blog series, the National Museum of the Royal Navy is following the route of the British Special Service Squadron during the…

Hand-drawn picture of a lake next to a forest with a mountain in the background.
Blog Specialisms Units & Squadrons Interwar Navy Organisation British Special Service Squadron

British Special Service Squadron - June 1924

In this ongoing blog series, the National Museum of the Royal Navy is following the route of the British Special Service Squadron during the…

HMS Dauntless at sea rolling at an angle due to the waves.
Blog Specialisms Units & Squadrons Interwar Navy Organisation British Special Service Squadron

British Special Service Squadron - May 1924

In this ongoing blog series, the National Museum of the Royal Navy is following the route of the British Special Service Squadron during the…

Special Service Squadron arriving in Sydney April 9 1924
Blog Specialisms Units & Squadrons Interwar Navy Organisation

British Special Service Squadron - April 1924

In this ongoing blog series, the National Museum of the Royal Navy is following the route of the British Special Service Squadron during the…

Postcard kept by Captain Charles Round-Turner. Courtesy of the National Museum of the Royal Navy
Blog Specialisms Units & Squadrons Interwar Navy Organisation British Special Service Squadron

The British Special Service Squadron - March 1924

In this ongoing blog series, the National Museum of the Royal Navy is following the route of the British Special Service Squadron during the…

Eight men unloading 99 bags of mail at Colombo.
Blog Specialisms Units & Squadrons Interwar Navy Organisation British Special Service Squadron

The British Special Service Squadron - Journey to Singapore 1924

In this ongoing blog series, the National Museum of the Royal Navy is following the route of the British Special Service Squadron during the…

A small craft welcomes HMS Dauntless to Delhi.
Blog Specialisms Units & Squadrons Interwar Navy Organisation British Special Service Squadron

British Special Service Squadron - January 1924

In this ongoing blog series, the National Museum of the Royal Navy is following the route of the British Special Service Squadron during the…

Mill Street in Freetown Sierra Leone.
Blog Specialisms Units & Squadrons Interwar Navy Organisation British Special Service Squadron

British Special Service Squadron 1923 - the first ports of call

December 8th, At Sea.  At 7am we sighted the West Coast of Africa, but owing to a low lying mist could not plainly discern the entrance to the…

Map showing the route that the British Special Squadron will take.
Blog Specialisms Units & Squadrons Interwar Navy Organisation British Special Service Squadron

British Special Service Squadron - 27th November

‘27th November 1923. Got underway at 0945, started World Cruise, not touching at Plymouth.’ 

A beige flag with a Union Jack on the top left corner and a Latin inscription in the centre.
Press Release Units & Squadrons Napoleonic Navy Organisation

National Museum of the Royal Navy fights to save polar sledge flag used in hunt for Franklin’s doomed expedition

The National Museum of the Royal Navy has stepped forward in a last-ditch attempt to save the sledge flag used in the search for Franklin and the…