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HMS Victory invites visitors inside bold new phase of £42m conservation project
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Chatterboxes – Connection and Conversations with HMS Victory
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Jane Austen and the Royal Navy

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Dinnie Jay a Shipwright for the National Museum of the Royal Navy stood in front of HMS Victory
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Keeping the craft of traditional rigging alive: Meet Dinnie Jay, rigger at the National Museum of the Royal Navy

At just 30 years old, Dinnie Jay has already built a career that bridges centuries of marine heritage. Originally from Boston, USA, Dinnie studied…
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Icon article: Inside ‘The Big Repair’: An Archaeological Block-Lift of a Hull Fragment from HMS Victory

In December 2025, after months of material testing and research, members of HMS Victory: The Big Repair’s Conservation Team undertook an…
A caregiver and two children sit outside a large wooden ship with a stern bearing the name 'Victory'
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Jane Austen and the Royal Navy

Jane Austen, born on 16 December 1775 in the Hampshire village of Steventon, is celebrated for her novels about the upper and middle classes of early…
Emily Stokes hard at work onboard HMS Victory
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I became a boatbuilder at 45!

Emily Stokes swapped a successful career in environmental science for boatbuilding - and never looked back.
HMS Alliance is docked at the Gosport marina.
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HMS Alliance is 80!

But why is she so important and why have we preserved her?
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HMS Victory: Conservation work "continues at pace" to restore Royal Navy flagship to her former glory

Painstaking engineering to conserve HMS Victory for future generations is “continuing at pace”.
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Pickle Night on HMS Warrior

On 6 November 2024, we hosted our much-anticipated Pickle Night aboard the decks of HMS Warrior, transforming this iconic ship into a vibrant…
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Researching Deathwatch beetles aboard HMS Victory

Cathryn Harvey is a current PhD researcher at Cranfield University within the Forensic Institute. She joined a research study project taking place on…