"HMY Britannia Her Majesty's Yacht ""Britannia, also known as the Royal Yacht ""Britannia, is the former royal yacht of the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, in service from 1954 until 1997. She was the 83rd such vessel since King Charles II acceded to the throne in 1660, and is the second royal yacht to bear the name, the first being the racing cutter built for the Prince of Wales in 1893. During her 43-year career, the yacht travelled more than a million nautical miles around the globe. Now retired from royal service, ""Britannia"" is open to visitors and is permanently"
"HMY Victoria and Albert (1899) HMY ""Victoria and Albert"" was a royal yacht of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. The yacht was designed by the Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy Sir William White, launched in 1899 and ready for service in 1901. This was the third yacht to be named ""Victoria and Albert"" and she was fitted with steam engines fired by Belleville water-tube boilers. She served four sovereigns, and was decommissioned as royal yacht in 1939, served in the Second World War, and was broken up in 1954. Queen Victoria had lobbied Parliament for many years"
"by Rev. Cosmo Lang, and then ten petty officers carried the coffin ashore and placed it aboard the funeral train that was to take it to London. ""Alberta"" remained in service following Queen Victoria's death, being present at King Edward VII's coronation review on 16 August 1902, with the royal yachts HMY ""Victoria and Albert"" and HMY ""Osborne"". With the introduction of newer ships, ""Alberta"" was retired from service, and was broken up in 1913. HMY Alberta HMY ""Alberta"" was a royal yacht of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom. She was built by Pembroke Dock and launched in"
"as the principal royal yacht by the introduction of the slightly larger HMY ""Royal Sovereign"" in 1804. Captain Foote commanded the yacht until 1812, when Captain Thomas Eyles took over command, and in June 1814 Captain George Scott became her commander. ""Royal Charlotte"" continued in service until July 1820, when she was finally broken up. HMY Royal Caroline (1750) HMY ""Royal Caroline"" was a ship-rigged royal yacht. She was ordered in 1749 to replace HMY ""Carolina"" as Britain's principal royal yacht. She was built at Deptford Dockyard under the supervision of Master Shipwright John Hollond to a design by Surveyor"
"with tracing paper, to prevent students marking it. ""Trafalgar"" was decommissioned on 4 December 2009 at Devonport. HMS Trafalgar (S107) HMS ""Trafalgar"" is a decommissioned of the Royal Navy. Unlike the rest of the ""Trafalgar""-class boats that followed, she was not launched with a pump-jet propulsion system, but with a conventional 7-bladed propeller. ""Trafalgar"" was the fifth vessel of the Royal Navy to bear the name, after the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar. In 2012 a Royal Navy submariner was jailed for 8 years for trying ""to pass secrets to the Russians that could have undermined Britain's national security""; One element"
"cruise ships for Princess Cruises. ""Royal Princess"" entered service in 2013 and ""Regal Princess"" entered service in 2014. ""Majestic Princess"", also built by Fincantieri, entered service in 2017. On August 26, 2013, the crew of the ""Caribbean Princess"" deliberately discharged 4,227gallons of oil-contaminated waste off the southern coast of England. The discharge involved the illegal modification of the vessel's on-board pollution control systems, and was photographed by a newly hired engineer. When the ship subsequently berthed at Southampton, the engineer resigned his position and reported the discharge to the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency. An investigation launched by the U.S."
"during the Second World War, as an accommodation ship to , and was broken up in 1954. During 1947, while moored alongside at Whale Island, her caretaker was Mr J.G. ""Tom"" Cox BEM, RN. He was responsible for the care of her contents, some of which were selected for eventual use in . Although there were plans for a new yacht to be built these were suspended due to the outbreak of the Second World War. Eventually HMY ""Britannia"" replaced ""Victoria and Albert"" in 1954. HMY Victoria and Albert (1899) HMY ""Victoria and Albert"" was a royal yacht of the"
"berthed at Ocean Terminal, Leith, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Over 300,000 tourists visit the yacht each year. HMY ""Britannia"" was built at the shipyard of John Brown & Co. Ltd in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire. She was launched by Queen Elizabeth II on 16 April 1953, and commissioned on 11 January 1954. The ship was designed with three masts: a foremast, a mainmast, and a mizzenmast. The top aerial on the foremast and the top of the mainmast were hinged to allow the ship to pass under bridges. ""Britannia"" was designed to be converted into a hospital ship in time of war,"
"the conversion; all of ""Quadrant""s previous armament was stripped off, and replaced with two 4-inch guns, two 40 mm Bofors cannon, and two Squids (ahead throwing anti-submarine weapons). The conversion was completed in mid 1953, and the ship recommissioned into the RAN on 16 July. After recommissioning, ""Quadrant""s service was mainly in Australian waters. ""Quadrant"" escorted the Royal Yacht during the visit to Australia of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh in February 1954. ""Quadrant"" visited New Guinea, Manus, and New Britain in October 1954, New Zealand in March 1955, and spent a period on exercises in Far"
"12 March 1982 and renamed BNS ""Abu Bakar"". She was assigned to the Commodore Commanding BN Flotilla (COMBAN). About 200 personnel served aboard ""Abu Bakar"", with most living aboard her. She was decommissioned during a ceremony held in her homeport Chittagong on 22 January 2014. She was replaced by a Chinese Type 053H2 frigate with the same name and pennant number. HMS Lynx (F27) HMS ""Lynx"" (F27), was a ""Leopard""-class Type 41 anti aircraft frigate of the British Royal Navy, named after the lynx. She was laid down by John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland, on 13 August 1953, launched"
"Her voyage took over three months to complete. She was beached on 24 July 2009. In October, scrapping began starting from the bow of the ship. The demolition of the ship was completed in early 2010. MS Regal Empress MS ""Regal Empress was a cruise ship that recently operated for Imperial Majesty Cruise Line. She was built in 1953 by Alexander Stephen & Sons at Glasgow, Scotland as the ocean liner SS ""Olympia for the Greek Line. Greek Line withdrew the ""Olympia"" from service in 1974. Following an extended lay-up period and reconstruction into a diesel-engined Caribbean cruise ship, the"
"HMY Royal Caroline (1750) HMY ""Royal Caroline"" was a ship-rigged royal yacht. She was ordered in 1749 to replace HMY ""Carolina"" as Britain's principal royal yacht. She was built at Deptford Dockyard under the supervision of Master Shipwright John Hollond to a design by Surveyor of the Navy Joseph Allin. She was launched on 29 January 1750 and was broken up 70 years later, in 1820. ""Royal Caroline"" was first commissioned under Captain Sir Charles Molloy, who commanded her until 1753. Captain Sir Piercy Brett took over in 1754, and in August 1761 she became the flagship of Admiral of"
"at Rosyth. She was finally scrapped at Bo'ness in 1971. HMS Scorpion (D64) HMS ""Scorpion"" was a of the British Royal Navy in service from 1947 and scrapped in 1971. Originally named ""Centaur"", the ship was renamed ""Tomahawk"" and finally ""Scorpion"" (in September 1943) before her launch. On commissioning ""Scorpion"" was allocated to the 6th Destroyer Flotilla (later squadron) which was made up of the Weapon-class destroyers. In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. In 1954 ""Scorpion"" was the only Weapon-class ship fitted with the Limbo depth charge mortar, as"
"her launch. The tour, which includes ""Cavalier""s engine and gear room, was enhanced with interactive audio hotspots to enable visitors with accessibility issues to explore the ship. HMS Cavalier (R73) HMS ""Cavalier"" is a retired destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by J. Samuel White and Company at East Cowes on 28 March 1943, launched on 7 April 1944, and commissioned on 22 November 1944. She served in World War II and in various commissions in the Far East until she was decommissioned in 1972. After decommissioning she was preserved as a museum ship and currently resides"
"commissioned in September 1946, and sailed to Valletta, Malta, where she remained with the ships of the Mediterranean Fleet for exercises and visits throughout the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, with periodic refits at HM Dockyard, Valletta. In November 1952 ""Surprise"" returned to Portsmouth. As the Royal Yacht was still under construction ""Surprise"" was selected for conversion for use by Queen Elizabeth II in the Coronation Review. The forward twin 4 inch mounting was replaced by a special viewing platform. The work was completed in March 1953, and after trials in the English Channel, the ship was deployed at"
"HMS Aeneas (P427) HMS ""Aeneas"" (P427) was a British of the Royal Navy, built by Cammell Laird and launched on 9 October 1945. It was named after the hero Aeneas from Greek mythology. ""Aeneas"" took part in the Coronation Review of the Fleet to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. ""Aeneas"" played the part of the M1 submarine in the 1967 James Bond film ""You Only Live Twice. In 1972 ""Aeneas"" was hired by Vickers for use in what proved to be successful trials of the Submarine-Launched Airflight Missile (SLAM) system, an anti-aircraft system using a cluster"
"1660. She is the second Royal yacht to bear the name, the first being the famous racing cutter built for The Prince of Wales in 1893. She is now permanently moored as an exhibition ship at Ocean Terminal, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland. Built at the shipyard of John Brown & Co. Ltd in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, she was launched by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 16 April 1953 and commissioned on 11 January 1954. The ship was designed with three masts, a foremast, a mainmast, and a mizzenmast. The top of the foremast and mainmast were hinged, to allow the"
"was instead decommissioned on 11 March 2011, as part of the Navy restructuring portion of the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review. After ""Ark Royal""s decommissioning replaced her as the Royal Navy flagship. ""Ark Royal"" was sold for scrap to the Turkish company Leyal Ship Recycling and left Portsmouth in May 2013. The aircraft carrier's keel was laid by Swan Hunter at Wallsend on 7 December 1978. She was launched on 2 June 1981 sponsored by the Queen Mother and commissioned on 1 November 1985. Originally intended as in line with her sister ships ( and ), public resentment at"
"of which (in October 1947) she was renamed ""Empress of France"". Preliminary plans to name the ship ""Empress of India"" were laid aside when India's independence was declared in August 1947. She re-entered service from Liverpool to Montreal on 1 September 1948. In a 1958/9 refit, her funnel tops were streamlined and her accommodation was revised to 218 1st class and 482 tourist. The ship was taken out of service in 1960; and she was broken up at Newport in late December of the same year. RMS Empress of France (1928) RMS ""Empress of France"" was an ocean liner built"
"Lord Walter Kerr served as a lieutenant on board ""Princess Royal"" during the ship's deployment to Japan. She was broken up in 1872. For more than 30 years, the wooden figurehead of ""Princess Royal"" adorned the outer wall of Castle's ship breaking yard at Baltic Wharf, Millbank, London. HMS Princess Royal (1853) HMS ""Princess Royal"" was a 91-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 June 1853 at Portsmouth. She took part in both the Baltic Campaign and the naval bombardment of Sebastopol during the Crimean War. She later served as the flagship of"
"been completed and she returned in 1953 to complete the refit, which included a white-painted hull. In 1954 the Queens visit to Australia occurred and ""Gothic"" was used for the visit. The Australian Government film ""The Queen in Australia 1954"" featured the ship in Sydney on arrival and Fremantle on departure three months later. This visit was part of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation world tour in 1954. She arrived for scrapping 13 August 1969. SS Gothic (1947) SS ""Gothic"" was a passenger-cargo liner launched in December 1947, though not completed until a year later. She became the most famous of"
"in action with a U-boat in the English Channel. The U-boat (possibly ) escaped, though corvette ""Pink"" was damaged. In November 1944 ""Rochester"" went for final refit, decommissioning as an escort vessel and re-equipping as a training ship. In March 1945 she joined the establishment of HMS ""Dryad"", the navigation school at Portsmouth. In September 1949 ""Rochester"" was decommissioned for the final time and in January 1951 was sold for scrap. During her service ""Rochester"" was awarded three battle honours. During her service ""Rochester"" was credited with the destruction of five U-boats: HMS Rochester (L50) HMS ""Rochester"" (L50) was a"
"June 1953. The ship was put into service on 1 March 1955. In July 1956 ""Zeeland"", the destroyer and the cruiser visited Leningrad for the first time since 1914. Where they were officially welcomed at the harbor of Kronstadt by the Soviet authorities. In July 1978 ""Zeeland"", together with the frigates , , , the destroyer , the submarine and the replenishment ship visited New York in commemoration of the city’s 200 years anniversary. On 29 September 1979 the vessel was decommissioned and struck from the register on 1 January 1979. ""Zeeland"" was sold on 8 November 1979 to the"
"of Queen Elizabeth II. ""Devonshire"" was sold for scrap on 16 June 1954 and arrived at Newport, Wales on 12 December 1954 where she was broken up by John Cashmore Ltd. HMS Devonshire (39) HMS ""Devonshire"", pennant number 39, was a heavy cruiser of the ""London"" sub-class built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s. The ship spent most of her pre-World War II career assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet aside from a brief tour with the China Station. She spent the first two months of the Second World War in the Mediterranean until she was transferred to the"
"was decommissioned on 21 October 1952. She underwent modernisation between 1953 and 1955 before being recommissioned on 19 April 1955, returning to the Mediterranean Fleet, also seeing service in the Persian Gulf and as part of the East Coast of India Patrol. She returned to the UK in April 1956 to refit, sailing on 14 November for the Persian Gulf via the Cape of Good Hope, because of the closure of the Suez Canal. Duties in the Gulf and Indian Ocean occupied her until her return to the UK on 12 November 1957. Another major refit took up 1958 and"
"bridge, gun turrets and turret rings, while plating protected cable runs. Within weeks of being first commissioned ""Decoy"" took part in the Fleet Review at Spithead to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. In 1956 she formed part of the Royal Navy's force used during the Suez Operation. On 4 September 1957, she was run aground at Portland Harbour, Dorset, due to failure of her steering gear. From 1960 to 1962 the destroyer undertook trials for the Royal Navy's new Sea Cat missile system, being fitted with a single quadruple launcher on the port rear side, which"
"""Seneschal"" was built by Scotts, of Greenock and launched on 23 April 1945. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name ""Seneschal"", after the office. She survived the Second World War, but endured several mishaps in post-war life. She suffered an explosion on 4 June 1947, and on 14 June 1952, she collided with the Danish frigate ""Thetis"", south of the Isle of Wight. The submarine's periscope and radar mast were damaged. In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. She was eventually"
"a Russian naval task group had deployed to the UK. She then sailed around the top of Scotland and into the Atlantic past western Ireland, where she conducted flying operations with her Sukhoi Su-33 Flanker jets and Kamov Ka-27 helicopters in international airspace. On 13 April 2012, ""Edinburgh"" fired the last ever operational Sea Dart missiles after a thirty-year career. As such ""York "" completed her career without the system being operational. ""York"" entered Portsmouth harbour for the final time on 20 September 2012, and was decommissioned on 27 September 2012. In August 2012, the ship was put up for"
"de Outubro"" and operated by the Portuguese Navy. Imperial yachts employed by the Tsar of Russia: Saudi royal yachts have included the following: The United Kingdom has had 83 royal yachts since the restoration of King Charles II in 1660. Charles II himself had 25 royal yachts, while five were simultaneously in service in 1831. Since the decommissioning of in 1997 the Queen no longer has a royal yacht. She has since, on occasion, chartered other vessels, such as . Other nations that employ some form of yacht presently or in the past include China, Iran, Sarawak and Sweden. The"
"MV Princess Victoria MV ""Princess Victoria"" was one of the earliest roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) ferries. Built in 1947, she operated from Stranraer to Larne. During a severe European windstorm on 31 January 1953, she sank in the North Channel with the loss of 133 lives. This was then the deadliest maritime disaster in United Kingdom waters since World War II. ""Princess Victoria"" was built in 1947 by William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton. She was the first purpose-built ferry of her kind to operate in British coastal waters and the fourth ship to bear the name, her 1939 predecessor having been sunk"
"though the name was perpetuated when a previously unnamed mooring lighter was renamed ""Royal Escape"" in 1749. This later craft was broken up in 1791, and a new ""Royal Escape"" was launched in 1792. This vessel, a transport, was broken up in 1877. HMY Royal Escape HMY ""Royal Escape was a royal yacht used by King Charles II. She was a former coastal trader, a brig named Surprise"". King Charles took passage on ""Surprise"" after the final defeat of the royalist cause in 1651, narrowly avoiding pursuing Parliamentarian forces. He arrived safely in France, where he lived in exile until"
"of Gdynia, curtailing other port visits in the region. HMS Westminster (F237) HMS ""Westminster"" is a Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy, and the second ship to bear the name. She was launched on 4 February 1992 and named for the Dukedom of Westminster. ""Westminster"" was used for the interior shots in the 1997 James Bond film ""Tomorrow Never Dies"" in three different roles – as HMS ""Chester"", HMS ""Devonshire"" and HMS ""Bedford"". For the exterior shots a model was constructed. In 2004, ""Westminster"" was assigned one of the Royal Navy's first Merlin helicopters. Also in 2004, the ship"
"achievement in rescuing so many Allied troops from France, she earned the title of ""The Heroine of Dunkirk"". In 1942 she was converted to a mine sweeping training ship, and served out the war in this capacity. Rebuilt by Thorneycrofts of Southampton in 1946, she returned to civilian service with New Medway Steam Packet Company for the 1947 season. When Elizabeth II was crowned, PS ""Medway Queen"" attended the 1953 Coronation Review at Spithead. She made her last sailing on 8 September 1963, and was scheduled to be scrapped in Belgium. The Belgian ship-breaker, upon discovering that the vessel he"