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Maritime Memorials: searching for lives lost at sea
Are you interested in family or local history? Do you like visiting churches or are you interested in the lives and deaths of seafarers? Explore our Maritime Memorials database.
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Our Connection to Water: meet the artists
Find out more about the seven artists that were featured in the National Maritime Museum's contemporary art exhibition
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Our Connection to Water
Life source, sacred ritual, scarce commodity? Seven artists shared what water means to them at the National Maritime Museum
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Time before Greenwich Mean Time: the confusing case of the traveller's watch
Before time became standardised, different areas of the country all kept their own 'local time'. This gold traveller's watch with two minute hands shows how tricky that could be
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The BBC pips: the Royal Observatory and the Greenwich Time Service
Discover the story behind the Greenwich time pips, first broadcast by the BBC 100 years ago in 1924
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The lost chronometer: the timepiece that sailed with Charles Darwin and Sir John Franklin
Learn more about the marine chronometer that journeyed on board HMS Beagle before being lost at sea during Sir John Franklin's disastrous expedition
Support for young people
Discover organisations that can help young people if you're experiencing low mood, stress or have worries.
Background to the Freedom of Information Publication Scheme
Find out about the background, purposes and aims of the Freedom of Information Publication Scheme
Freedom of Information: procedures
Details of procedures and any charges for obtaining information via the National Maritime Museum's Freedom of Information Publication Scheme