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Historic Royal Navy ‘Spitfires of the seas’ take centre stage in new exhibition

Two World War 2 boats are to be the stars of a new exhibition at the National Museum of the Royal Navy’s Explosion Museum in Gosport.
Coastal Motor Boat CMB331 and Motor Torpedo Boat MTB71, each measuring almost 60ft, will be in The Night Hunters: The Royal Navy’s Coastal Forces at War, which tells the story of the squadron from August 1916 to the late 1950s.

Immortalised as “Spitfires of the Seas” the boats, Coastal Motor Boat CMB331 and Motor Torpedo Boat MTB71, were often deployed in the dark, at incredibly high speeds as small but fast attack motor boats which carried torpedoes.

It was a branch of the Royal Navy commonly manned by very young men, often reservist volunteers, in wooden craft, heavily armed carrying ammunition, explosives and high-octane fuel as they went in to attack enemy naval forces at close range.

Last year the Royal Navy restructured the 1st Patrol Boat Squadron as Coastal Forces Squadron.

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It's the Year of the Tiger! Happy Lunar New Year to our friends celebrating.
The Royal Navy is always up for celebrating tigers, as shown in these images from 814 Naval Air Squadron, the Tiger Squadron, which took its emblem to heart.
See - https://www.facebook.com/NatMuseumRN/ph ... 432466464/
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HMS Victory is undergoing a major new conservation phase that will offer visitors a once-in-a-generation experience.
Victory will go under wraps and be partially enclosed by temporary covered access. This will make the ship weathertight so she can start to dry out and conservation work, which will keep her protected for the next half-century, can begin.
Visitors will eventually be able to get up close to HMS Victory and see specialist shipwrights at work as a fascinating new visitor experience.
The nine-week phase of scaffolding is due to be complete in time for the summer holiday period, and access may be restricted for limited periods. Keep up to date with our social channels for more information if you’re planning on visiting.
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During my first historical visit to the UK which was......eeee.. some 25 yers ago(???) my first stop was Portsmouth of course.
HMS Victory and the RN Museum was No1 on priority list.
About the Ship everything has been told and known but what have struck me was full list of the crew members on plaque in front of the ship.
There I saw a mom with a little girl showing her the plaque and the kid noticed a name - "look mom, this is my grandpa name".
The mother explained her the possible coincidence and that they check out home the family history.
Anyway, such a list is the way to make shelves got opened in people minds and possibly open a gate to think historically.

Of course I was proud seeing on the list of the Victory captains pure Polish name of the HM officer who being son of the Polish immigrants was privileged of being first CO of the ship after she was recommissioned in 60thies(?).
As for other memories I run away from the Portsmouth pretty quick because I could understand very few they were talking to me.
An investigation to a B&B host who spoke fully understood English showed that was their "Portsmouthian's" slang which she was sometimes also difficulties to understand being from the inner land of the UK.

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RARE NELSON PAPERS – TRALGAR DAY

Rare intimate letters and documents penned by Nelson – many never on public display before – can be seen from tomorrow in Portsmouth.
NatMuseumRN is airing a collection of letters and personal papers spanning his victories from the Nile to Trafalgar.

See - https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-l ... falgar-day
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Thank you David for five posts of both relevance and interest to many members , most of whom just read and note the content therein .....So please bare in mind its a wider audience than you may think ;)
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ivorthediver wrote: Fri Oct 21, 2022 7:14 pm Thank you David for five posts of both relevance and interest to many members , most of whom just read and note the content therein .....So please bare in mind its a wider audience than you may think ;)
Thanks Ivor, you are all welcome, we are here to serve, as ever. :roll:
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Naval museum pleads for help to save flag from historic Arctic rescue mission

The Royal Navy’s premier museum needs to raise £30k inside a fortnight to prevent an iconic piece of naval history being snapped up by a private collector.
170 years ago a party led by naval officer Captain Henry Kellett attempted to find the doomed Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and the 129 men of HMS Terror and Erebus, lost in the late 1840s when they tried – and failed – to find a navigable route from the Atlantic to Pacific via Canada’s Northwest Passage.
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You have just 45 days to see one of the greatest treasures in British naval history before they return to storage for months, perhaps years, to protect them.

The Armada Maps chart the Royal Navy’s defeat of the Spanish fleet – or armada – in 1588, one of the defining moments in the history of the navy, nation and Europe.

The ten hand-drawn maps – compiled just one year after the victory – follow the progress of Spanish force (141 ships and 24-thousand men) and the better led, better trained and more professional British fleet which thwarted their invasion plans.

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