The National Museum of the Royal Navy was created in early 2009 to act as a single
non-departmental public body
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for the museums of the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against ...
. 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.
Museums
The National Museum of the Royal Navy:
Historic ships
Ships of the National Museum of the Royal Navy include:
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
The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a naval engagement between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (180 ...
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.
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.
In August 2015, the First World War Monitor
HMS ''M.33'', currently undergoing restoration, opened to the public. In December the same year, the museum acquired
RML ''497'', a Second World War motor launch.
,
Belfast
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, 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.
References
External links
National Museum of the Royal NavyNational Museum of the Royal Navy PortsmouthNational Museum of the Royal Navy HartlepoolRoyal Marines MuseumRoyal Navy Submarine MuseumExplosion Museum
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