National Museum of the Royal Navy | Walkthrough Tour August 2019 | 4k
Walkthrough tour of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth.
The National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth, formerly known as the Royal Naval Museum, is a museum of the history of the Royal Navy located in the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard section of HMNB Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. The museum is part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Ministry of Defence. It received 1,081,909 visitors in 2017.
The museum was founded in 1911. Known originally as the Dockyard Museum, it was conceived by Mr Mark Edwin Pescott-Frost, then secretary to the Admiral Superintendent at Portsmouth. With a passion for naval history he spearheaded a project to save items for future generations, eventually leading to the opening of a new museum. His foresight ensured the survival of many interesting and important artefacts, several of which are still on display today. He was awarded the Imperial Service Order in 1916.
In 1985, under the terms of the National Heritage Act 1983, the museum was devolved from the Ministry of Defence to become an executive non-departmental public body, supported by a grant-in-aid. At this juncture, the name was changed to become the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth.
In 2008, the National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) formally came into being with the express purpose of providing greater co-ordination of naval heritage in the broadest sense and, following on from this, in 2010, the Royal Naval Museum became a full subsidiary of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, and changed its name to National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth.
Filmed on GoPro Hero7 Black, August 2019
A Walk Around The Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, England
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is an area of HM Naval Base Portsmouth which is open to the public; it contains several historic buildings and ships. It is managed by the National Museum of the Royal Navy as an umbrella organisation representing five charities: the Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust, the National Museum of the Royal Navy Portsmouth, the Mary Rose Trust, the Warrior Preservation Trust Ltd and the HMS Victory Preservation Company. Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Ltd was created to promote and manage the tourism element of the Royal Navy Dockyard, with the relevant trusts maintaining and interpreting their own attractions. It also promotes other nearby navy-related tourist attractions.
The National Museum of the Royal Navy was first opened in Portsmouth in 1911. The museum is host to many original Naval artefacts, including one of the original sails from the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. You can also see the Trafalgar Experience, an interactive walk-through gallery which details the Battle of Trafalgar and ends with the famous Wyllie Panorama. The museum also includes World War I Monitor HMS M33, which opened to the public in 2015, the centenary year of her launch.
HMS Victory has been open to the public for nearly 200 years. She was the famous flagship of Admiral Horatio, Lord Nelson who he famously died on during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. She was moved into her current dry-dock in 1922 where she has remained since.
The Mary Rose was raised in front of a worldwide TV audience in 1982. She was then brought to Portsmouth and housed in dry dock. A new £35million museum, housing the ship and thousands of artefacts that were also recovered, opened in May 2013.
HMS Warrior 1860 was brought back home to Portsmouth in 1987, to further add to the collection of historic ships Portsmouth had to offer. As the world’s first iron clad warship, she represented a milestone in shipbuilding when sh was launched in 1860 and never fired a shot in anger.
Harbour Tours represent the chance to see the Historic Dockyard and Naval Base from the water. The trip leaves from Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, heads up to the North West corner of the Naval Base, making a quick stop at Gunwharf Quays before coming back to the Historic Dockyard.
Action Stations opened to the public in 2001 in the historic Boathouse No. 6. This building houses an interactive experience of the modern Royal Navy, including flight simulators, climbing walls and towers amongst many others. A recent addition is a Laser Quest experience, which offers another completely different use of this building
Boathouse 4 is due to open in 2015 as a Boatbuilding and Heritage Skills Centre Alongside an exhibition telling the story of small boats in the Royal Navy, visitors will be able to see traditional boatbuilding skills in action. The nearby Boathouse 5 houses a Historic Boat Workshop, part of the International Boatbuilding Training College.
National Museum of the Royal Navy Review of 2014
Just some of the exciting things that have happened at the Museums of the NMRN in 2014.
From new galleries and restored submarines to royal visits and funding for fantastic future projects, it has been a busy and eventful year for us, and 2015 is looking to be even bigger and better.
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2018 UK Trip - The Portsmouth Trip - National Museum of the Royal Navy.
Took a trip to the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth with the wonderful Mr and Mrs Hicks (real name hidden for security dolphins) and had a damned good time. It was HOT, it was BIG, it was full of ships strangely enough!
Seems expensive at first but really isn't when you see the content available. Suggest everyone goes much earlier than we did though as some of it closes early... annoying but meh.
Bring water :)
Launch of the National Museum of the Royal Navy
The National Museum of the Royal Navy was launched on the 18th September 2009 at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. The event was launched with Admiral Sir Peter Abbott (Chairman of Trustees, NMRN), Baroness Taylor (Under Secretary of State for Defence) and Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope (First Sea Lord).
The launch was brought to a close with HMS Victory firing a broadside.
Launch of National Museum of the Royal Navy, 2009
Launch of National Museum of the Royal Navy, 2009
A Visit to the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
On May 29 & 30, 2019, I visited the Historic Dockyard in Portsmouth, England. The first day, I planned to see the tall ships and visit the National Museum of the Royal Navy, but it was too wet and rainy; the visit was salvaged by the fact that the Royal Marines School of Music was sponsoring a military band tattoo event on Victory Arena, adjacent to the HMS Victory, so I watched that instead (see my separate video of the entire performance).
The next day, I had a reservation on a coastal cruise, followed by a steam train excursion, but the cruise was cancelled due to stiff winds offshore, making the sea too rough. So, since the weather was otherwise very nice and clear, I returned to the dockyard and did what I had planned to to the previous day, except I ran out of time and did not visit the National Museum of the Royal Navy. Just as well, since I think the three ships I DID visit make for better video.
I visited the HMS Victory, and the HMS Warrior, as well as the Mary Rose museum.
HMS Warrior 1860 joins The National Museum of the Royal Navy fleet
Welcome to the fleet HMS Warrior 1860!
We’re delighted to announce that, 30 years after HMS Warrior returned to Portsmouth, her owners, the Warrior Preservation Trust, have merged with The National Museum of the Royal Navy as of 1st April 2017.
Royal Navy museum ships
List of museum ships in the UK. Mostly those of the Royal Navy. Just to show that we do have a maritime past.
A Walk Around The HMS Victory, Portsmouth, England
HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is best known as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
She was also Keppel's flagship at Ushant, Howe's flagship at Cape Spartel and Jervis's flagship at Cape St Vincent. After 1824, she served as a harbour ship.
In 1922, she was moved to a dry dock at Portsmouth, England, and preserved as a museum ship. She has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012 and is the world's oldest naval ship still in commission.
Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, HMS Victory has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012. Prior to this, she was the flagship of the Second Sea Lord. She is the oldest commissioned warship in the world[Note 1] and attracts around 350,000 visitors per year in her role as a museum ship. The current and 100th commanding officer is Lieutenant Commander Rod Strathern Royal Navy, who assumed command in September 2011.
HMS Victory, officially, has a surprisingly large crew complement, though visitors are unlikely to see any naval personnel. It is a legacy of naval legislation that all naval ratings and officers must be assigned to a ship (which may include a shore establishment – still regarded as Her Majesty's Ships by the navy). Any navy person allocated to work in a non-HMS location (such as the Ministry of Defence in London) is recorded as being a member of the crew of HMS Victory.
Dominic Tweddle, National Museum of the Royal Navy
'MicroPasts Knowledge Exchanges' Workshop 1: 'Using Crowd-based Methods in a Heritage Ecology'
Session: Crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums
23 September 2015, UCL Institute of Archaeology
London & Royal Naval Museum Portsmouth
National Museum Royal Navy Portsmouth Director General discusses HMS Monitor M33
Dominic Tweddle, Director General of the National Museum Royal Navy Portsmouth, talks exclusively about the future of HMS Monitor M33 after funding was approved by the Heritage Lottery Fund. More information is available in our news article here - .
A TOUR ON BOARD HMS TRINCOMALEE AT THE MUSEUM OF THE ROYAL NAVY IN HARTLEPOOL - 20th May 2018
A tour around HMS Trincomalee, a Leda Class Sailing Frigate of the Royal Navy that was built in 1817 and is today preserved at the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Hartlepool.
The National Museum of the Royal Navy SeaMore Team
Twelve Royal Marines and five museum runners aim to raise £1,500 and this will go towards an overall target of £2.5m for the SeaMore Appeal. This project will see the Royal Marines Museum relocate to the Historic Dockyard and create a Centre of Discovery that will bring together 2.5 million archived items. It will also allow the museum to develop dynamic new galleries, offer physical activities and demonstrate personal stories of heroism
BROADSIDE GREETS ROYAL NAVY MUSEUM
The creation of the National Museum of the Royal Navy- an initiative bringing together the four existing Naval Service museums- has been celebrated with a broadside of 64 cannons from the famous HMS Victory.
Happy New Year from The National Museum of the Royal Navy!
Happy new year! We've had another amazing year here and we wanted to share with you some of our highlights. We look forward to seeing you again in our 10th anniversary year in 2019!
Visit the Royal Navy Submarine Museum
National Museum of the Royal Navy
20th and 21st Galleries appeal
justgiving.com/New-Galleries