National Museum of the Royal Navy

National Museum of the Royal Navy

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Established	2009; 10 years ago (2009)
Director	Dominic Tweddle
Website	nmrn.org.uk

The National Museum of the Royal Navy was created in early 2009 to act as a single non-departmental public body for the museums of the Royal Navy. With venues across the United Kingdom, the museums detail the history of the Royal Navy operating on and under the sea, on land and in the air.

Contents

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  1 Museums
  


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  2 Historic Ships
  


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  3 Background
  


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  4 References
  


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  5 External links
  

Museums

The National Museum of the Royal Navy Museums:

	Museum	Location
	National Museum of the Royal Navy	Portsmouth Dockyard Hampshire[1]
	Royal Marines Museum	CLOSED[2]
	Royal Navy Submarine Museum	Gosport Hampshire
	Fleet Air Arm Museum	RNAS Yeovilton Ilchester Somerset
	Explosion! Museum of Naval Firepower	Gosport Hampshire[3]

Historic Ships

Ships of the National Museum of the Royal Navy include:

	Museum	Location
	HMS Victory	Portsmouth Dockyard Hampshire[4]
	HMS Trincomalee	Hartlepool[5]
	HMS Warrior	Portsmouth Dockyard Hampshire
	HMS Caroline	Belfast Northern Ireland
	HMS M.33	Portsmouth Dockyard Hampshire
	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 - 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, 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 (1860) Was transferred to the museum in 2017 from the Warrior Preservation Trust, and has helped finish ongoing HLF Works as well as undertaking a further restoration of the ship including new paintwork on the ships hull.

References

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   ^ https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2017/february/09/170209-royal-marines-museum-move
   


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   ^ "Explosion! taken over by NMRN - Museums Association". Retrieved 28 May 2016.
   


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   ^ "£50m for HMS Victory". National Museum of the Royal Navy. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
   


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   ^ "Last of Nelson's frigates HMS Trincomalee joins illustrious fleet national museum". National Museum of the Royal Navy. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
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   ^ "HMS - Hear My Story". Retrieved 28 May 2016.
   


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   ^ "The last Landing Craft from the Second World War saved for the nation". Retrieved 28 May 2016.
   


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   ^ "Monitor HMS M33". Retrieved 28 May 2016.
   


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   ^ "'Amazing Survivor' Acquired by the National Museum of the Royal Navy". Retrieved December 16, 2015.
   

External links

• National Museum of the Royal Navy


• National Museum of the Royal Navy Portsmouth


• National Museum of the Royal Navy Hartlepool


• Royal Marines Museum


• Royal Navy Submarine Museum


• Explosion Museum

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