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Maritime museums
HMS Belfast
HMS Belfast is part of the Imperial War Museums.
HMS Belfast is the Royal Navy's most significant surviving World War II warship. Since launching more than 82 years ago, she has fired some of the first shots at the D-Day landings, served in Arctic convoys and in the Korean War.
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The Historic Dockyard Chatham
When the Chatham Royal Shipyard was closed in 1984 (after several centuries the largest shipyard that belonged to the crown), it was decided to build a museum in about one quarter of the original area.
The largest exhibits include:
Records of ships built at Chatham go back to 1646.
Chatham Dockyard had one of the best engineering schools in England, home to the first shipbuilding school, followed by Devonport and Portsmouth. It accepted students from overseas dockyards such as Gibraltar and HM Dockyard, Malta.
Some of the hundreds of warships built at Chatham Royal Dockyard can still be seen today. These preserved ships include, for example:
HMS Victory (100 guns First Class ie ship of the line, launched 1765, preserved in dry dock at Portsmouth, England, UK; Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar)
HMS Unicorn (54 guns fifth class - launched 1824, preserved afloat at Dundee, Scotland, UK)
HMS Ocelot (S17) ("O" class submarine - launched 5 May 1962, preserved in dry dock at Chatham).
Part of the museum is a short railway that is in operation during special events in the museum.
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Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is part of the Portsmouth Naval Base which is open to the public and contains several historic buildings and ships. It is managed by the National Museum of the Royal Navy as an umbrella organization representing five charities: Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust, National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth, Mary Rose Trust, Warrior Preservation Trust Ltd and HMS Victory Preservation Company. Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Ltd. was established to promote and manage the tourist section of the Royal Navy Dockyard in London, where it maintains and exhibits its own attractions. It also promotes other maritime-related tourist attractions.
With this in mind, the museum is basically divided into five separate exhibits:
HMS Victory, which took part in the Battle of Trafalgar as Admiral Nelson's flagship.
HMS Warrior was the first steel-hulled warship to be built in Great Britain
HMS M33 World War I Fast Patrol Boat
Mary Rose, the wreck of a Tudor navy warship that sank in 1545 and was raised from the sea in 1982
Main exhibition hall, in which the development of the British Navy is accurately documented.
The tour includes a cruise through the military and container port and is complemented by two "excursions" to the other side of the bay. There are two separate exhibitions available there:
The Royal Navy Submarine Museum where the first submarine from the early twentieth century is located.
Explosion! is the Museum of Naval Firepower naval firearms museum
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National Maritime Museum
The National Maritime Museum (NMM) is a maritime museum in Greenwich, London. It is part of Royal Museums Greenwich, a network of museums in the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. Like other publicly funded national museums in the United Kingdom, it has no general admission charge; there are admission charges for most side-gallery temporary exhibitions, usually supplemented by many loaned works from other museums.
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