Supporters of the campaign to open a new Royal Marines Museum in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard are being given a rare opportunity to adopt an object from the collection in a scheme launched today, Thursday 14 February.
Initially twenty special artefacts have been selected from the museum’s vast collection of over two million items. The scheme gives the chance to put a name to some of the most interesting, informative and educational items in the collection.
From 4 pm today, (Monday 28 January) we’ll be changing the way you buy tickets online for the better.
As part of The National Museum of the Royal Navy, we have grown to encompass 14 different attractions across the UK. To reflect this, we’re making two distinct changes to how our ticketing system operates online.
When you next visit our ticketing page, you'll notice that we’re now co-branded with The National Museum of the Royal Navy. This means, wherever you’re online, you can be confident knowing who you’re buying your tickets from.
From 4 pm today, (Monday 28 January) we’ll be changing the way you buy tickets online for the better. The National Museum of the Royal Navy, has grown to encompass 14 different attractions across the UK. To reflect this, we’re making two distinct changes to how our ticketing system operates online.
When you next visit the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard website, you'll notice that we’re now co-branded with The National Museum of the Royal Navy. This means, wherever you’re online, you can be confident knowing who you’re buying your tickets from.
Workers building the new London-Birmingham high-speed railway line have unearthed the grave of the sailor who gave Australia its name. For 180 years the last resting place of explorer and navigator Captain Matthew Flinders has been lost among 40,000 other bodies in graves near Euston station.
After a week of preparation and careful manoeuvre onto a barge at Williams Shipping, Southampton Port, a unique Second World War survivor, Rescue Motor Launch RML 497, bid farewell to the south coast yesterday morning as she embarked on her 420-nautical-mile journey here to Hartlepool.
Following her arrival at PD Ports, Hartlepool, she will be transferred by road and carefully craned into place alongside the msueum and placed into a temporary building.
Final preparations are about to commence to enable a unique Second World War survivor, Rescue Motor Launch (RML) 497, to undertake a 400 mile journey to Hartlepool. RML 497 is about to undertake her most important journey to date, when she will be barged approximately 400 nautical miles from her current resting place on Southampton Water, to the National Museum of the Royal Navy Hartlepool.
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