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up to 35 designs has been created by artist D Gary Coole. Some of the tattoos featured were submitted by the public, some of them serving or veteran personnel following a public appeal by the museum to learn more about the tradition of tattoos.

The torso is now being toured around Portsmouth and beyond as part of an outreach programme including sessions with Alzheimer’s and Dementia Veterans group.

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2 Introduction 3 Major Achievements 4 Focus on Hartlepool 6 Devonport Update 8 Lights, Camera, Action 9 Fundraising and Membership 10 Use of Funds 11 Trading and Visitor Services 13 Learning 14 Collections, Research and Scholarship 16 Future Projects 19 Navy

Opposite Fundraising Notable Visitors and Events for the new 20 Museum is a strategic project for the museum.

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HMS Victory is progressing well and Hosting 96 tourism leaders from across the UK for the a full-size Polaris and Tomahawk missile. The Royal Navy the Trafalgar Sail is back on display main Council Meeting of the Association of Leading Submarine Service has carried the nation’s nuclear and looks superb. The museum broke Visitor Attractions (ALVA). The two-day Tourism Summit deterrent since 1968. new ground with a ‘Tattoos’ opened with an exclusive tour of HMS Victory. Speakers temporary exhibition which included Jenny Waldman CBE, Director of 1 4-18 Now. ‘Welcoming Tattoo: British Tattoo Art Revealed’, a stimulated a great deal of interest major new exhibition, curated by The National Maritime and a considerable contrast to the Holding a two-day international conference to mark Museum Cornwall celebrating the rich artistic heritage ‘Silent and Secret’ exhibition which the centenary of the Zeebrugge Raid to blockade of tattooing as an art form in the UK – and challenging recognised 50 years of the Continuous the German forces in the Belgian port. Eight Victoria long-standing myths and pre-conceptions about At-Sea Deterrent. Further afield, Crosses were awarded for a raid considered to be tattooing in terms of class, gender and age. RML 497 arrived as the vanguard of one of the key moments of the First World War. Revealing HMS Victory’s Trafalgar Sail, after it had a major development at the National lain unseen for the last six years. The only surviving Museum Hartlepool and we progress Reopening the Pump House alongside HMS Caroline. foretopsail from the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar, it measures the gifting of the Devonport Naval The biggest regeneration project undertaken in recent the equivalent of two tennis courts when fully laid out. Introduction Heritage Centre collection. years in the Titanic Quarter, Belfast, it forms the base Internationally, we hosted a formal for an extensive new visitor centre. A new 25-metre Displaying, for the very first time, a 42-pound cannon, visit from the Chilean Navy and signed steel and timber footbridge has been installed across from the wreck of HMS Victory 1744. Since her discovery a Memorandum of Understanding the mouth of Alexandra Dock to allow even greater 2019 HAS BROUGHT HOME the separate marketing and visitor ten years ago, the predecessor to Nelson’s famous accessibility for visitors. Chinese adage, ‘may you live in entrances bemuse our visitors. with the Hellenic Navy. flagship has captured the imagination of naval interesting times’! We were both Sharing a static or reducing ticket enthusiasts and maritime archaeologists. Her sinking Commemorating 50 years of the Continuous At-Sea surprised and indeed disappointed to income is never easy and there is not Looking forward uncertainty, both was one of the Royal Navy’s worst naval disasters. Deterrent with a new exhibition, ‘Silent and Secret’ receive the unwelcome news that the enough revenue generated to meet political and economic, appears to be at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum (RNSM). National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) the increasing costs of The National the order of the day. If this adversely Confirming a grant of £4.7m from the NLHF towards The permanent displays include the installation of found themselves unable to support Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN), impacts on visitor numbers and the conservation and move of D-Day survivor LCT 7074. the creation of a new Royal Marines the MRT and Portsmouth Naval Base income then we stand to be in for Museum and ‘Storyhouse 12: The Property Trust (PNBPT). Ways must be both a difficult year and an Navy Unlocked’. It is unconscionable found to maximise income, share it increasingly uncertain future. We are that the Royal Marines should be fairly and transparently and reduce now fast reaching the point where an without a museum to tell their the cost base. appropriate Grant in Aid settlement Major Achievements illustrious story. We are driving hard must be put in place, which allows now with a £5m campaign to raise the On the upside, we signed a shared free visitor access in line with funds and as part of this will be asking ‘Statement of Intent’ reaffirming the Government policy for National Opposite left Senior conservator Diana Davis making both the Royal Marines charities and relationship between the Royal Navy Museums and the governance final checks on the Trafalgar Sail. the navy for their financial support. and its museum. Landing Craft Tank relationships in Portsmouth Historic Opposite right Sir GCB, DL, Chairman (LCT) 7074, the last LCT to be on the Dockyard (PHD) are reformed with of The National Museum of the Royal Navy. It has proved difficult to find an beaches on D-Day, secured a Round 2 the aim of reducing the cost base. accommodation with the Mary Rose pass from the NLHF and is planned Sir Jonathon Band GCB; Left Curator Alexandra Geary with a firing panel Trust (MRT) since they chose to to be on site in Southsea, next to the from the Polaris-era. operate independently but we D-Day Story in the summer of 2020. Chairman of the Board of The continue to try. All parties agree that Work on the new support system for National Museum of the Royal Navy.

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HOW IS THE NATIONAL MUSEUM by a new indoor adventure centre. WHAT LIES IN WAIT FOR RML 497? WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP TO We have also been working with RML 497 will be the centrepiece HELP THIS? architecture students from of a new exhibition hall on the We are working with Hartlepool Northumbria University on an exciting site and it will help to tell the story Borough Council and Tees Valley project which has seen them redesign of these heroic vessels and their Combined Authority to devise a and repurpose the museum and crews during the Second World War. scheme which will not only enable buildings. This will culminate in a Extensive repairs and conservation us to reach a wider audience but summer exhibition onsite which will work are required before that will will ensure the National Museum open the dialogue with the local occur. In the meantime, she is being acts as that much-needed catalyst community on what the future might carefully cleaned and looked after for regeneration. Interim work has look like. The students’ work, done in by a team of volunteers led by our already begun and this summer a short space of time, is phenomenal Curator and Ship Keepers. will see the installation of a new and really highlights the huge playground which will be followed potential of the site.

READ OUR SHORT Q AND A with the National Museum Hartlepool’s General Manager, Roslyn Adamson. WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC CHALLENGE WE FACE IN Opposite left General Manager, HARTLEPOOL? Roslyn Adamson with the Tees We have a fantastic site in Hartlepool which continues Valley Mayor, Ben Houchen. CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT IT MEANS TO HARTLEPOOL to surprise and delight any new visitors who travel to TO HAVE A NATIONAL MUSEUM BASED THERE? see us. It is difficult not to be impressed of course by Opposite right Costumed interpretation is always popular Hartlepool is a proud town with big aspirations for the the sight of HMS Trincomalee floating in the dock. at Hartlepool. future, but it isn’t without its social and economic The story we currently tell through HMS Trincomalee challenges. The National Museum is seen by many as a represents only a snapshot of the history of the Royal Left A new play ship will be a positive step towards tackling these negative external Navy. We are tasked with bringing to the region the welcome addition to the Hartlepool perceptions and we have a responsibility to play our part wider story of naval history through the ages but also visitor offer. in the regeneration of the area. The waterfront location of what the Royal Navy represents today. in which the museum sits is ripe for redevelopment and the National Museum has the potential to draw additional Our greatest challenge is our lack of exhibition space visitors to the town, particularly if we get this right. to do this. Luckily, our greatest opportunity is the availability of land to do something about that.

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FOLLOWING PARLIAMENTARY Cataloguing has begun on submarine approval, the transfer of the HMS Courageous. The Age of Sail Devonport naval heritage collection gallery is being refreshed and into the National Museum continues. reinterpreted. Work continues with In the meantime, our curator Hannah the cataloguing of our textile Bradbury has been busy improving collection and new racking for our visitor experience with a new improved access and proper storage. Right Identity card from an exhibition series of temporary exhibitions, Volunteers are now trained in on the Chinese labour corps. archive open days and improved digitising our pay and hurt books, our Below Devonport curator Hannah outreach. vast glass plate negatives collection Below Part of the current galleries Bradbury (right) with Sadie Wilson and in oral history recording. in Devonport. from the Portsmouth team.

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Fundraising and Membership

FUNDRAISING AND MEMBERSHIP of our sites, special benefits, events continued to take positive steps and discounts. Last year saw a forward during the year. Work massive increase in the scheme. focused on the new Royal Marines Events included a series of activities Museum and D-Day Landing Craft for the Centenary of the end of the LCT 7074. Events included the First First World War. Notable donors Sea Lord’s Reception for Beating during the year include the Peter Retreat at Admiralty House, London, Harrison Heritage Foundation who a lunch on Cunard’s Queen Mary and supported D-Day Landing Craft fundraising dinners including those LCT 7074, the WRNS Benevolent at Trinity House, London and on Trust and a group of Royal Marines HMS Victory. runners.

The National Membership scheme BAE and Oyster Yachts were has gone from strength to strength, welcomed as new Corporate helping to create a long term Partners. They join long-standing sustainable business model. In just corporate partners, including over two years we have 6,778 Babcock and Lockheed Martin. members and last year saw a massive BAE hosted a large and successful increase. Members enjoy access to all volunteering day in Portsmouth.

Lights, Camera, Action STEM corporate partner BMT hosted Virtual Reality activities for children. The partnership see BMT and the OUR SITES HAVE WELCOMED of the museum with an estimated Above left Tom Hughes aka Prince National Museum continue to work on several famous faces for filming £14.7m in advertising value equivalent. Albert in Hartlepool for ITV’s Victoria. maritime heritage programmes, which during the year and been the host provide young graduate engineers at Above Michael Buerk and John Sergeant for peak Saturday night viewing, Engagement online has been equally in popular TV series Britain by Boat. BMT with unique experience and insights with the National Lottery’s Race to high with 1,437,495 visitors to the into maritime design. The partnership the Numbers. National Museum website and our Right Race to the Numbers was hosted will also see BMT supporting the numerous social media pages on by HMS Victory. National Museum with future STEM Media coverage continues to play an Twitter (3,439,980 visits), Facebook Opposite right Sponsor BMT supports initiatives, blending education and important part in raising the profile (15,281,540 visits) and Instagram. holiday fun with virtual reality kits. history with modern day application.

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Sources of Income

Grant in Aid Admissions Investment Incom e/ Growth Fundraising Events Trading Subsidiaries Grants, Donations and Legacies Services Sundry Use of Funds

Application of Funds

Staff Costs Marketing Site Costs Legal and Professional Administration Collections Management Learning Exhibitions and Events Trading and Visitor Services Trading Subsidiaries

THE START OF 2018 saw the launch of a new ticketing Dockyard and a Rum Festival at Hartlepool, building strategy to provide a wider choice of experience to our on the success of these themed events for the National FOR EVERY £1 of Grant in Aid, we visitors. This was complimented by bespoke upselling and Museum. raised another £4.35. commercial awareness training for our visitor experience team. All our sites sell all tickets from all till points. Action Stations also transferred into the National Museum Above left RML 497 finally ashore in Opposite There’s nothing like a bit Hartlepool. of sword fighting to entertain young family, enhancing the family offer and enabling further visitors at Hartlepool! A Beer Festival generating both public awareness and commercial opportunities. Left Detail from a painted tattooed income took place at HMS Caroline, a Halloween Scare torso created by artist Gary Coole. Attraction reaching new audiences at Portsmouth Historic

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Visitor Numbers Learning Portsmouth Historic Dockyard 716,499 Visitors

The National Museum Portsmouth 75,347 DURING 201 8–19 the Learning, Engagement, Access Victory Gallery 65,851 and Participation team delivered formal and informal HMS Victory 302,860 learning activities to 53,876 participants. We shared our story with 5,434 people in our local communities. HMS M.33 66,831 Through our work and projects we levered in £342,632 36 Hours: Jutland 39,868 in funding and income. Royal Navy Submarine Museum 87,810 Our work is inclusive. We worked with older people Explosion 15,788 at risk of isolation and men recovering from substance HMS Warrior 75,347 abuse. We ran projects with young people with special Action Stations 184,742 educational needs, babies and toddlers, teenagers, veterans and people from black and ethnic minority The National Museum Hartlepool 45,125 backgrounds. Many had not previously visited; many HMS Caroline 41,202 Right Award winning activity expressed increased levels of wellbeing as a result of book, Join the Crew. Museum 88,159 their engagement and we welcome them back.

Our Join the Crew children’s activity book won first prize for Best Children’s publication at the Association of Cultural Enterprises (ACE) Awards.

Our troupe of actors, Dockyard Alive, had a successful year entertaining our visitors through themed characters that ensured our open spaces and queues were entertained and amused.

Left Well-known Royal Marine Hannah Snell is part of our Dockyard Alive troupe.

Opposite Workshops with the Fleet Air Arm Museum’s (FAAM) unique aircraft carrier catapult; the Tattoo exhibition; processing artefacts from the Diving Deep project.

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Left and below Acquisition of artworks Left The museum marked the 50th can still provide a unique operational anniversary of the first Polaris submarine perspective, whether by serving personnel patrol with a major conference and the or contemporary artists. This year we permanent exhibition ‘Silent and Secret’. added 69 watercolour sketches painted After extensive conservation, and the by Surgeon Probationer Charles Glen significant logistical effort required to RNVR on HMS Sceptre, 191 7–18, and join sections together and move into two watercolours by Gordon Rushmer, the John Fieldhouse Building, a Polaris who was embedded with 3 Commando missile was installed for the first time (Brigade) Royal Marines in Kosovo, 2001. at RNSM.

Collections, Research and Scholarship

A FULLY-INTEGRATED TEAM working across the museum’s different sites now plans the development, management and use of our collections. More than 500 offers of new material have been reviewed – with approximately one third accepted – whilst a significant project to review and rationalise existing holdings is underway.

Following the National Lottery Heritage Fund’s decision not to fund Above Digitisation of the collection the new Royal Marines Museum relating to HMS Warrior – such as the project, Trustees have acted quickly uniform and possessions of the first to release over £2m and a project has Captain – has provided the basis for started which will move and improve the re-interpretation of the ship and the storage of collections, which are is the first element of the museum’s currently at critical risk in poor quality collection now fully accessible online buildings, by March 2020. at www.nmrn.org.uk

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Future Projects

Above and right RML 497 towed into Above right Dan Pascoe holding a quoin, or a wedge Southampton Port to prepare for her used to elevate a gun, excavated from HMS Invincible. journey to Hartlepool; safely arrived. Right The Diving Deep: HMS Invincible 1744 Opposite top left Storehouse 12, a new archaeological excavation aims to tell the story of the store being created at the heart of PHD, amazing Invincible , her capture, the contribution she is part of an ambitious project to made to the Royal Navy and ship design and her consolidate the museum’s collections into subsequent sinking and rediscovery by a local fisherman, three locations, improving conditions and Arthur Mack, nearly 200 years later. access. There will be further high quality HMS Invincible images: Mike Pitts storage in Cobham Hall at FAAM.

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Navy

Above The original bell will be scanned and cast by Cammell Laird to provide a new bell for the aircraft carrier HMS The Prince of Wales.

Above right and right The Lamplight of Peace.

Far right Admiral Sir Jonathon Band and Vice Admiral Tony Radakin sign the shared Statement of Intent.

Opposite A long-term vision for FAAM includes a new building incorporating dramatically improved galleries, a STEM Centre and more and better quality collections storage.

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PATRON HRH The Princess Royal

VICE PATRONS Lord Palumbo Lord Jones of Birmingham Hon Vice Admiral Sir Donald Gosling KCVO, RNR

TRUSTEES Admiral Sir Jonathon Band GCB, DL, Chairman Councillor Donna Jones Mr Michael Bedingfield Major General Jeff Mason MBE Professor John Scott Davidson MA, LLD, Mrs Mary Montagu-Scott DL Notable Visitors and Events SFHEA, FRSA Mr Tim Schadla-Hall Mr Mike Gambazzi Professor Sara Selwood Ms Helen Jackson Rear Admiral Rob Stevens CB Vice Admiral Sir Adrian Johns KCB, CBE, Mr Gavin Whitter ACA, CTA KStJ, ADC Dr Caroline Williams Mr Charles Wilson DIRECTOR GENERAL Professor Dominic Tweddle

Clockwise from top left Gerald Patrons and Trustees Jones MP Shadow Minister for Armed Forces and Stephen Morgan MP; Malaysian visitors with HMS Victory ; FAAM AMBASSADORS John Bishop Libby Purves OBE restoration engineer William Gibbs with veteran Douglas Rolton; a Barbara Dickson OBE Colin Salmon new cooperation signed overseas, Nigel Havers Kate Silverton including the Hellenic Navy and Greece’s Lascarides Foundation; Sir Ben Kingsley CBE Dan Snow Nicholas Witchell with Director General Dominic Tweddle; the Robert Lindsay Tommy Steele OBE Chilean Navy visit to Portsmouth.

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