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Artist rendering of ground floor of Royal Marine Museum featuring Lynx Helicopter
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A gallery space featuring a 3/4 angle painting of Vice Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson
Trafalgar Day 2024: Vice-Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson
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An oil painting depicting several Napoleonic-era warships engaged in battle
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Trafalgar Day 2024: The Battle of Trafalgar

Join the National Museum of the Royal Navy as we launch a new digital series for Trafalgar Day - covering the life of Vice-Admiral Lord Horatio…
A panoramic photograph of a large naval battle painting
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Trafalgar Day 2024: HMS Victory after Trafalgar and W.L. Wyllie

Join the National Museum of the Royal Navy as we launch a new digital series for Trafalgar Day - covering the life of Vice-Admiral Lord Horatio…
A gallery space featuring a 3/4 angle painting of Vice Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson
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Trafalgar Day 2024: Vice-Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson

Join the National Museum of the Royal Navy as we launch a new digital series for Trafalgar Day - covering the life of Vice-Admiral Lord Horatio…
Contemporary black and white photograph of HMS Royal Oak at sea.
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The Sinking of HMS Royal Oak

The sinking of HMS Royal Oak, in the early days of the Second World War, was a major shock for the Royal Navy. In total 834 personnel were killed as…
One of the original Operation Neptune naval orders in a case at the National Museum of the Royal Navy
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The story of the Royal Navy’s role in D-Day for D-Day 80

The D-Day landings, codenamed Operation Neptune, marked the start of the end for Nazi occupation in Europe. Nearly 7000 naval vessels were used…
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Extremely Rare Spanish Armada Maps to be displayed for the first time by the National Museum of the Royal Navy

The Armada Maps National Treasures exhibition is a once in a generation opportunity to view the ten incredibly rare maps that chart the defeat of the…
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Operation Frankton: The story of the Cockleshell Heroes

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the daring Operation Frankton, undertaken between 7 and 12 December 1942. As part of its commemoration…
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Key moment from the Falklands conflict recalled in day-long free event at the National Museum of the Royal Navy

Forty years to the day since Portsmouth-based County Class Destroyer HMS Antrim entered San Carlos Water to start the landing operations to retake…