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Nelson Gallery tells the story of Horatio, Viscount Nelson. Sailing Navy Gallery tells of life at sea in the Sailing Navy. HMS Hear My Story tells "undiscovered stories from the ordinary men, women and ships which have made the Navy‘s amazing history over the last 100 years". [7]
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 ...
The total displacement of the Royal Navy's commissioned and active ships is approximately 362,200 tonnes. The Royal Navy also includes a number of smaller non-commissioned assets. The naval training vessels Brecon and Hindostan can be found based at the Royal Navy stone frigates HMS Raleigh and the Britannia Royal Naval College, respectively
The Night Hunters: the Royal Navy’s Coastal Forces at War is a permanent exhibition gallery opened in 2021 [2] and supported by Coastal Forces Heritage Trust, a registered charity. [3] The display includes two historic preserved vessels: CMB 331 – a 1941 55-foot Thornycroft coastal motor boat; MTB 71 – a 1940 60-foot Vosper motor torpedo boat
The National Museum of the Royal Navy is host to many original Naval artefacts, including one of the original sails from the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The Trafalgar Experience is an interactive walk-through gallery detailing the Battle of Trafalgar, ending with a panorama painted by William Lionel Wyllie. [6]
View of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum. The Royal Navy Submarine Museum at Gosport is a maritime museum tracing the international history of submarine development from the age of Alexander the Great to the present day, and particularly the history of the Royal Navy Submarine Service from the navy's first submarine, Holland 1, to the nuclear-powered Vanguard-class submarines.
One of the 42-pounder guns recovered from Victory is extremely rare, being the only gun of its type recovered from a Royal Navy shipwreck. It was made by Swiss-born Andrew Schalch at Royal the Brass Foundry in Woolwich, in 1723. It is now on display at the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth. [7]
The Gallery of HMS 'Calcutta' (Portsmouth), also known as Officer and Ladies on Board HMS Calcutta, is an 1876 oil painting by the French artist James Tissot. It depicts two ladies in fashionable clothing and a young naval lieutenant, standing on the quarter gallery at the stern of the Royal Navy warship HMS Calcutta.