Royal Navy Submarine Museum
 Entrance to the museum (in the background the 170 m high Spinnaker Tower on the opposite side of Portsmouth Harbor) |
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Gosport (near Portsmouth) United Kingdom
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Marine museums
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| opening | 1963 |
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The Royal Navy Submarine Museum ( RNSM , short Submarine Museum , German " U-Boot - Museum der Königlichen Marine " ) in the southern English port city of Gosport (near Portsmouth ) illustrates the international history of the development of submarines with impressive exhibits Focus on the Royal Navy Submarine Service , the Royal Navy's fleet of submarines. It is part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy .
exhibition
One of the oldest original showpieces is Holland 1 (picture) , the first boat in the Holland class . It is named after the Irish-American engineer John Philip Holland (1841–1914). It entered service in 1901 and sank in 1913 while being towed to be scrapped . In 1982 it was lifted, extensively restored and exhibited in the museum.
You can also see the only surviving X-class boat , namely the X24 (picture) . Such miniature submarines were used by the Royal Navy for commando operations during World War II , such as Operation Source , in which the German battleship Tirpitz , lying in the northern Norwegian Kåfjord , was badly damaged by explosive mines.
A captured German miniature submarine of the Biber type (picture) is one of the museum's other highlights. It has been extensively restored and is probably the only original submarine from the Second World War that is fully functional.
Also on display is the comparatively huge Alliance (picture) , an Amphion- class deep-sea submarine that was in service from 1945 to 1974.
The first submarine of the Royal Navy, Holland 1 from 1901, in the museum's outdoor area (1991 photo).
The British submarine X24 was used for commando operations during World War II ...
... just like the German beaver on the other side (No. 105).
The Alliance can also be viewed from the inside.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Royal Navy Submarine Museum , accessed March 12, 2018.
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 17 ″ N , 1 ° 7 ′ 10 ″ W.