The National Museum of the Royal Navy museums and attractions are now open - please check museum pages for opening times.
Pre-booking is essential and we encourage visitors to wear masks for their safety and the safety of others.
HMS Caroline remains temporarily closed. Find The Latest COVID-19 Updates Here.
HRH Prince Michael of Kent visited the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport and met with curators, conservators and the visitor welcome team.
The Prince, who last visited in 2016, was accompanied by Executive Director of Resources, Sarah Dennis, General Manager Claire Baverstock and the Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire, Nigel Atkinson.
On 19 July 1918 six Sopwith Camels from HMS Furious executed the first attack by aircraft from an aircraft carrier. Seaplane carriers, lighters and decking on gun turrets had earlier enabled aircraft to launch from ships, but HMS Furious had been designed specifically to allow aeroplanes to take off from a deck in front of her bridge.
• Safe arrival, under escort, of two historic Second World War boats herald fit-out of new Coastal Forces exhibition due to open in Autumn
• Coastal Motor Boat CMB 331 and Motor Torpedo Boat MTB71 will take centre stage in exhibition which will be permanent legacy to Coastal Forces
• “The Night Hunters: The Royal Navy’s Coastal Forces at War” tells gripping and relatively unknown story of high-octane, high-speed tactics of the “Spitfires of the Sea.”
The Royal Navy has recently announced a new hairstyle policy that allows women to wear a variety of hairstyles including ponytails, corn rows, twists, locks, afros and braids.
These new regulations remind us of how the social and cultural relevance of hair within the navy has been important throughout its history.
Here at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, we have been diving into the history of hair within the Georgian Royal Navy with our new exhibition, Diving Deep.
On 31 May 1915 the Royal Navy’s first Coastal class airship took to the skies after only three weeks development. That is quite a feat for the production of any craft but demonstrates the determination and resourcefulness of the Royal Navy during the First World War.
After the limited success of the Royal Navy’s first rigid airship HMA 1, the Royal Navy concentrated on non-rigid airships until 1916. HMA 1 had successful mooring trials, but in 1911 her rigid structure was broken in 1911 as she left the shed for the first true flight.
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