Portsmouth Historic Dockyard: HMS Victory & Mary Rose Ticket

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Duration1d–365d

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Five centuries of warships, preserved in one waterfront afternoon

You get full access to five naval vessels and museums spanning 500 years of British maritime history — HMS Victory, Mary Rose, HMS Warrior, submarines, and the Royal Navy Museum — plus multilingual audio guides and a water bus to the submarine site. No separate tickets to buy, no navigating entry queues for each attraction. The ticket is your pass to everything, and you move through at your own pace.

1d–365d

Step-by-step itinerary

Explore Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

Stroll through the dockyard atmosphere
Visit The Mary Rose and Dive 4D
Tour HMS Victory and watch repairs
Explore HMS Warrior and engine room
Take water bus to Submarine Museum
Tour HMS Alliance with ex-submariner
Visit Holland 1 submarine
See HMS M.33 and Royal Navy Museum

The Experience

The moment you step into Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, you hear it before you see it clearly — the creak of timber, the lap of water against wooden hulls, the sound of a place that has held ships for half a millennium. HMS Victory sits there, Nelson's flagship from Trafalgar, though right now it's wrapped in scaffolding as conservators work on what they call the Big Repair — a once-in-a-lifetime restoration that lets you see parts of the ship normally hidden inside. You can still board her, walk the decks where 104 guns once sat, and an audio guide walks you through how the crew lived in those tight quarters during battle.

The Mary Rose is the real time capsule here. This Tudor warship went down in 1545, spent 437 years buried in the seabed, and came back up in 1982 — thousands of objects still clinging to her timbers, from wooden bowls to leather shoes to the personal things sailors carried. There's a 4D experience called Dive the Mary Rose that puts you underwater with the wreck itself, which sounds gimmicky until you're actually there watching the recovery happen in front of you. After that, HMS Warrior feels almost modern by comparison — a Victorian iron-hulled ship with a gleaming engine room and crew members in period dress who genuinely know their stuff and want to talk about life at sea.

On weekends and school holidays, your ticket includes a water bus across to the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, where you can tour HMS Alliance, a 1945 submarine, with an ex-submariner who tells stories that make the cramped quarters feel less like a museum exhibit and more like the actual thing. Holland 1, the first submarine ever built, sits nearby. The National Museum of the Royal Navy ties it all together — a straight line from the 1700s to now, told through objects and the people who served. You're not rushing; the dockyard is built so you can spend a full day here and still feel like you've missed something.

What’s included

Your ticket covers entry to HMS Victory, The Mary Rose (including the Dive the Mary Rose 4D experience), HMS Warrior, HMS M.33, and the National Museum of the Royal Navy.
On weekends and school holidays, the water bus to the Royal Navy Submarine Museum (HMS Alliance and Holland 1) is included.
Multilingual audio guides for HMS Victory are part of your admission.
You explore at your own pace with no time limits on individual attractions.

Good to know

Easy physical levelWheelchair accessibleStroller friendlyInfant seats availablePets welcomePublic transport nearby

Operated by PortsmouthHistoricDockyard

Is this one for you?Right for anyone wanting to understand British naval history without juggling separate tickets and entry times — the dockyard is designed so you move between ships and museums on one pass, and the audio guides mean you don't need to follow a group or wait for a tour to start.