News in May 2012

Details Announced For Victorious Vintage at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
Details Announced For Victorious Vintage at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard May 2012 Update    A New Event to Celebrate the Diamond Jubilee 2nd June – 3rd June 2012 – 10am-10pm   Dodgy and The Lightning Seeds are to headline the UK’s largest free vintage and music event, along with over 250 performers providing entertainment on four different stages and across the site, to celebrate the Diamon...
22nd May 2012 FULL STORY View Full Story 
Gun Removal From The Mary Rose Museum – Through The Roof!
Gun Removal From The Mary Rose Museum – Through The Roof! Today, Thursday 17th May, the Mary Rose Trust removed the five large Tudor bronze guns from the current museum in preparation for the new museum due to open at the end of the year at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Owing to the size of the original Tudor artefacts found with the hull, they were removed by crane through the roof of the bui...
17th May 2012 FULL STORY View Full Story 
Naval Service Certificates Demystified
Naval Service Certificates Demystified Saturday 9th June and Saturday 13th October 10.30am-1pm Tickets: Adults £16 An Intermediate Practical Half-Day Workshop at the National Museum of the Royal Navy (Portsmouth Historic Dockyard)   With a vast number of TV programmes, websites and magazines specialising in genealogy it is no surprise that more and more people ar...
14th May 2012 FULL STORY View Full Story 
Flog It! comes to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
Flog It! comes to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard The popular BBC2 antiques programme Flog It! presented by Paul Martin, is returning to Hampshire.   Flog It! – the major BBC2 antiques series – regularly gets an audience of two million viewers each weekday.   Portsmouth Historic Dockyard will once again be hosting a Flog It! Valuation Day, the TV programmes first visit to t...
10th May 2012 FULL STORY View Full Story 
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Present ‘Dockyard At Dusk’
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Present ‘Dockyard At Dusk’ All The World’s A Stage (As You Like It) Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Present ‘Dockyard At Dusk’   In a brand new venture, this summer Portsmouth Historic Dockyard will present a truly unique opportunity to enjoy a night ‘out’ at the theatre in the exceptional surroundings of the world-famous HMS Victory, as ‘this huge stage prese...
8th May 2012 FULL STORY View Full Story 
Enigma Machine Still Revealing Secrets After 71 Years, As Rotors Are Re-Discovered
Enigma Machine Still Revealing Secrets After 71 Years, As Rotors Are Re-Discovered HMS Collingwood helped The National Museum of the Royal Navy at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard commemorate the 71st Anniversary of the Royal Navy’s capture of an Enigma machine, as they reunited some very special items. 9th May 1941 was the date that the Royal Navy captured the first, fully functioning, Enigma machine complete with rotors a...
3rd May 2012 FULL STORY View Full Story