National Museum of the Royal Navy

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Museums

The National Museum of the Royal Navy:

Museum Location
File:H.M.S. Trincomalee, Hartlepool Maritime Experience - geograph.org.uk - 1605077.jpg National Museum of the Royal Navy, Hartlepool Jackson Dock, Hartlepool[1]
File:UK Defence Imagery Naval Bases image 06.jpg National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire[1]
File:The Royal Marines Museum, Southsea.jpg Royal Marines Museum Closed April 2017[2]
File:HMS Alliance - geograph.org.uk - 593452.jpg Royal Navy Submarine Museum Gosport, Hampshire
File:Fleet Air Arm Museum.JPG Fleet Air Arm Museum RNAS Yeovilton, Ilchester, Somerset
File:Museum of Naval Firepower, Gosport-geograph.org.uk-2992669.jpg Explosion Museum of Naval Firepower Gosport, Hampshire[3]

Historic ships

Ships of the National Museum of the Royal Navy include:

Museum Location
File:HMS Victory - bow.jpg HMS Victory Portsmouth Dockyard

Hampshire[4]

File:H.M.S. Trincomalee, Hartlepool Maritime Experience - geograph.org.uk - 1605077.jpg HMS Trincomalee Hartlepool[5]
File:HMS warriorjune20092.jpg HMS Warrior Portsmouth Dockyard

Hampshire

File:HMS Caroline 2017.jpg HMS Caroline Belfast

County Antrim

File:HMS Monitor M33 - 4 April 2010 at Portsmouth Naval Dockyard.JPG HMS M.33 Portsmouth Dockyard

Hampshire

File:HMS Alliance S67.jpg HMS Alliance Portsmouth Dockyard

Hampshire

Background

In the financial year starting 1 April 2009, the NMRN co-ordinated Grants in Aid from the UK Ministry of Defence and the four original museums became integral parts of the NMRN.

The NMRN is also the custodian of HMS Victory, Admiral Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

HMS Alliance, the only surviving British Second World War submarine, re-opened following a £7 million conservation and restoration project, in 2014.

On 3 April 2014, The Babcock Galleries opened at the NMRN's Portsmouth Museum. The £4.5M project created 'HMS' – the Hear My Story exhibition, which tells the story of the 20th and 21st Century Royal Navy and its people, and a special exhibition space.[6]

In October 2014, the Museum received funding to restore D-Day Landing Craft (Tank) LCT 7074. The craft was raised from where it had sunk at moorings in Birkenhead, and was transported to Portsmouth for conservation.[7]

In August 2015, the First World War Monitor HMS M.33, currently undergoing restoration, opened to the public.[8] In December the same year, the museum acquired RML 497, a Second World War motor launch.[9]

HMS Caroline, Belfast, joined the museum on 31 May 2016, on the centenary of the Battle of Jutland.

HMS Warrior was transferred to the museum in 2017 from the Warrior Preservation Trust, and the museum has helped finish ongoing HLF Works as well as undertaking a further restoration of the ship, including new paintwork on the ship's hull.

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External links

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