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Signage on Boathouse 4. 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 organization representing five charities: the Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust, the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth, the Mary Rose Trust ...
HMS Warrior is a 40-gun steam-powered armoured frigate [Note 1] built for the Royal Navy in 1859–1861. She was the name ship of the Warrior-class ironclads. Warrior and her sister ship HMS Black Prince were the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warships, and were built in response to France's launching in 1859 of the first ocean-going ironclad warship, the wooden-hulled Gloire.
HMS Warrior (1860), the first ocean-going Ironclad (built at Blackwall on the River Thames in 1860 and now moored in the dockyard). HMS M33, a World War I monitor (opened to the public in 2015) The National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth, one of the world's leading maritime museums.
Figurehead of HMS Warrior, Portsmouth; City shown: Portsmouth: Horizontal resolution: 240 dpi: Vertical resolution: 240 dpi: Software used: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 12.3 (Macintosh) File change date and time: 21:19, 18 May 2023: Exposure Program: Aperture priority: Exif version: 2.31: Date and time of digitizing: 10:46, 23 April 2023 ...
HMS Caledonia, (Rosyth Dockyard, Fife) HMS Saker, Administrative aggregation of Royal Navy personnel based in the United States; Institute of Naval Medicine (Alverstoke, Hampshire) [1] Northwood Headquarters (Northwood, Hertfordshire, England), formerly HMS Warrior. Operational HQ for Commander Operations
Portsmouth harbour with the Spinnaker Tower on the right. The masts of HMS Warrior and HMS Victory are visible in the background. A tunnel crossing the mouth of the harbour between Gosport and Portsmouth was proposed in 1941, which would have allowed pedestrian traffic while doubling as a subterranean air raid shelter for residents on both sides.
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. [2] 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.
On 3 April 2014, The Babcock Galleries opened at the NMRN's Portsmouth Museum. The £4.5M project created 'HMS' – the Hear My Story exhibition, which tells the story of the 20th and 21st Century Royal Navy and its people, and a special exhibition space. [6] In October 2014, the Museum received funding to restore D-Day Landing Craft (Tank) LCT ...