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4 unusual facts about National Maritime Museum


40-foot telescope

-- when?--> and is now located in the Herschel Collection of the National Maritime Museum, in the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London.

Elly Dekker

Elly Dekker catalogued the National Maritime Museum's collection of globes in Greenwich, east London, England.

Objet d'art

Thus the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London describes its collection as follows: "The National Maritime Museum's collection of objet d’art comprises over 800 objects. These are mostly small decorative art items that fall outside the scope of the Museum’s ceramic, plate, textiles and glass collections."

Yeongdo District

The Korea Maritime University and the National Maritime Museum of Korea are located in Yeongdo-gu.


Arthur William Devis

Either the original or a copy of this portrait was exhibited at the Royal Academy two years after the Battle and many copies were made of it (Lord Howe owned one, and another ended up in the collection of the National Maritime Museum), and it was also engraved in Beatty's account of Nelson's death.

Clive David Smith – Yachtsman

'Bluebottle' is now on permanent loan to the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, Cornwall.

Edward Eden Bradford

The National Maritime Museum has a water colour of Admiral Bradford by the artist Francis Dodd.

Jonathan Betts

Jonathan Betts MBE (born 29 January 1955) is Senior Specialist in horology at the Royal Observatory (National Maritime Museum), Greenwich, a horological scholar and author, and an expert on the first marine timekeepers created by John Harrison in the middle of the 18th century.

Luxborough Galley

Another series of small paintings, attributed to John Cleveley the Elder in 1727, are assumed to be reproductions of the same; these were acquired by the Greenwich Hospital and is now part of their collection held at the National Maritime Museum.

Marin Getaldić

Ghetaldić was the constructor of the parabolic mirror (66 cm in diameter), kept today at the National Maritime Museum in London.

National Historic Ships

Strong support was expressed for the creation of a co-ordinating body that could provide an overview of all aspects of historic ship preservation and the Committee was formally launched on 15 July 1992 by Lord Lewin, then Chairman of Trustees of the National Maritime Museum.

Terence Lewin, Baron Lewin

In retirement Lewin became Chairman of the Trustees of the National Maritime Museum, a Liveryman of the Skinners' Company and of the Shipwrights' Company and an elder brother of Trinity House.

Willem F. J. Mörzer Bruyns

In 1995 he was Huntington Fellow at The Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, and from 2005-2007 Sackler Research Fellow in the History of Astronomy and Navigational Sciences at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich in London.

William Gordon Perrin

From 1922 until his death Perrin was honorary editor of the Mariner's Mirror and honorary secretary of both the Navy Records Society (since 1912 : it owes to him its revival after the War) and, by appointment of the Admiralty, to the Trustees of the National Maritime Museum and MacPherson Collection at Greenwich.


see also

Bayfield-class attack transport

Mawdsley, Dean L. (2002): Steel Ships and Iron Pipe: Western Pipe and Steel Company of California, the Company, the Yard, the Ships, Glencannon Press (for Associates of the National Maritime Museum Library), ISBN 1-889901-28-8.

David Cordingly

David Cordingly organised several exhibitions at the National Maritime Museum, including Captain James Cook, Navigator and The Mutiny on the Bounty.

Edith Haisman

On 15 April 1995, Edith was present with fellow Titanic survivor, Eva Hart, aged 90, at the opening of a memorial garden at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London where a granite monument commemorating the 83rd anniversary of Titanic's sinking was erected.

Frank Carr

Frank George Griffith Carr, director of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England

James Caird

Sir James Caird, 1st Baronet (1864–1954), founder of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

Sir Chaloner Ogle, 1st Baronet

Another portrait of Sir Chaloner Ogle of Worthy by a follower of Joshua Reynolds was sold at Christie's auction house in 2009, which bears the same likeness to the painting in the National Maritime Museum.