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One moment, Edwin Rowland Moon was flying above the endless green maze of the Rufiji Delta. The next, his aircraft was coming down.
In January 1917, Moon was serving with the Royal Naval Air Service in German East Africa (now Tanzania) as a Flight Sub-Lieutenant pilot, carrying out reconnaissanc...
Imagine being sealed inside a submarine barely larger than a bus, with just three other men, stale air, failing light and thirty miles of enemy-controlled fjord ahead. In April 1944, that was the reality for Lieutenant Max Shean and the crew of HMS X24.
X24 was an X-craft – a tiny “midget subma...
It is the summer of 1825 and our story starts inland, deep within the Niger Delta in West Africa. The air is thick with heat and the sounds of family life – voices overlapping, laughter – and at the centre of it all is an eleven-year-old boy named Asa-Asa. The sea isn’t just distant, for Asa-Asa it is unimagina...
Ahead of them lay miles of freezing water, powerful tides, enemy patrols and the heavily defended port of Bordeaux. Their mission was Operation Frankton.
Of the ten men who set out in five canoes that night, only two would return home.
Today, some of the deeply personal obj...
The decision follows the publication of the Royal Navy Museums’ new 2025–2030 strategy, which sets a clear direction for the Museum to focus investment where it can deliver the greatest benefit for audiences, collections, financial sustainability...