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| Republic of Singapore Navy |
Navy Museum of Singapore is a place for the young generation to learn more about our navy's progress over the years and be up close to some interesting equipment found on board the ship.
Located at Tanah Merah Coast Road, besides the SAF Yacht Club, this museum is pretty quiet on a weekend. We were told the museum usually has more group visitors from schools and other visiting navy friends from other countries when their ships are docked in Changi Naval Base.
As the museum is now located within the gated compound of the Changi Naval Base, you will need to park your vehicle at the pass office, change to a visitor pass, and a friendly uniformed personnel will come and escort you to the museum. Make you feel like VIP.
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| Naval equipments in the early days |
The museum is nicely spread over 3 levels. On the 1st level, it displayed some ship equipments used in the Navy during the early years. There was a working 10-inch Signalling Lantern (which was used for communicating via morse code) from RSS Mercury that was quite interesting as we did not get to see this before.
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| Video screening at the museum |
There was a theatrette showing Navy life, songs that all Navy boys know and snippets of training on board ships.
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| Single Barrel 40mm/L70 Bofors |
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| Single Barrel Oerlikon 20mm |
On the second floor, we got to hands-on pretend firing at simulated targets with a decommissioned anti-aircraft gun which could rotate 180° and the gun turret which could be raised or lowered . It was so cool, got us entertained for a while.
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| Submarine at the Navy Museum of Singapore |
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| Submarine mock up and diving suit |
There was also a mock up submarine periscope for us to try.
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| Frigate simulator at the museum |
Being a frigate commander and steering your vessel to the target point. One of the interactive games on level 2.
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| Naval assistance provided |
On the 3rd level, it shows the many friendships that our Navy has forged through the years. It also highlights milestone events that the Navy was involved in, some to strengthen friendships between our countries, some to provide urgent assistance to people in need.
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| Gifts from different countries |
Over the years, Singapore Navy has received many beautiful and interesting ceremonial gifts as they visited different Ports of Call throughout the world.
At the back of the museum, the outdoor exhibits shows some of the naval artillery found on board our Navy ships.
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| Navy Museum of Singapore |
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| Naval artillery |
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| Naval guns at Navy Museum Singapore |
It's really amazing to see how much our Naval force has progressed through the years. A lot of planning and effort has been put in to lead our Singapore Armed Forces to where we are today.
With that ending thought, another fun family outing has been done at the far end of our eastern shores.
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