What letters preceded the name on the Royal Yacht Britannia
"HMY Britannia (Royal Cutter Yacht) His Majesty's Yacht ""Britannia"" was a gaff-rigged cutter built in 1893 for RYS Commodore Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII. She served both himself and his son King George V, with a long racing career. ""Britannia"" was ordered in 1892 by Edward, Prince of Wales and designed by George Lennox Watson. She was a near sister ship to the Watson-designed which challenged for the 1893 America's Cup. Details of the commission were arranged on the Prince’s behalf by William Jamieson who represented him and liaised closely with Watson. The build"
"HMS Britannia (1904) HMS ""Britannia"" was a ""King Edward VII""-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy. She was named after Britannia, the Latin name of Great Britain under Roman rule. After commissioning in September 1906, she served briefly with the Atlantic and Channel Fleets before joining the Home Fleet. In 1912, she, along with her sister ships of the ""King Edward VII"" class, was assigned to the 3rd Battle Squadron but in June 1913, she returned to duties with the Home Fleet. When the First World War broke out, ""Britannia"" was transferred back to the 3rd Battle Squadron, which was"
"Her Majesty's Ship His or Her Majesty's Ship, abbreviated HMS, is the ship prefix used for ships of the navy in some monarchies. Derived terms such as ""HMAS"" and equivalents in other languages such as ""SMS"" are used. In the British Royal Navy, the prefix was originally always quoted in full; the first recorded use of the abbreviated form, ""HMS"", occurred in 1789 in respect of HMS ""Phoenix"". From 1707 to c1800 HBMS (for His Britannic Majesty's Ship) was also used. Submarines in Her Majesty's service also use the prefix ""HMS"", standing for ""Her Majesty's Submarine"". The Royal Yacht ""Britannia"","
"""never saw any official reference to the name 'Gigantic' being used or proposed for the third of the Olympic class vessels"". Some hand-written changes were added to the order book and dated January 1912. These only dealt with the ship's moulded width, not her name. At least one set of documentation exists, in which Hingley's discuss the order for the ship's anchors; this documentation states that the name of the ship is ""Gigantic"". The keel for ""Britannic"" was laid on 30 November 1911 at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, on the gantry slip previously occupied by the ""Olympic"","
"at Dartmouth, which was built by Higgs and Hill and practically completed in 1905. The first term of cadets entered at the R.N. College Osborne were transferred to Dartmouth in September 1905. The college was originally known as the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth (BRNC). As a Royal Naval shore establishment, it was later known also by the ship name HMS ""Britannia (a battleship called operated from 1904 to 1918). The college was named (ship name: HMS ""Dartmouth) in 1953, when the name ""Britannia"" was given to the newly launched royal yacht . The training ship moored in the River Dart"
"RMS Britannia RMS ""Britannia"" was an ocean liner of the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, later known as Cunard Steamship Company. She was launched on 5 February 1840, at the yard of Robert Duncan & Company in Greenock, Scotland. The ship and her sisters, ""Acadia"", ""Caledonia"", and ""Columbia"", were the first ocean liners built by the company. ""Britannia"" was a large ship for the period, 207 feet (63 m) long and 34 feet (10.3 m) across the beam, with three masts and a wooden hull. She had paddle wheels and her coal-powered two-cylinder side-lever engine (from"
"names beginning with 'B' (""Broadsword"", etc.), following the 'A' names used for Type 21s (""Amazon"", etc.). This changed after the Falklands War when two replacement ships were ordered for the destroyers sunk (""Sheffield"" and ""Coventry"") and were named to commemorate them. Another vessel ordered earlier but not yet started, which was to be named ""Bloodhound"" was renamed ""London"". The alphabetical progression was re-established with the Batch 3 ships (""Cornwall"", etc.) before being temporarily abandoned with the Type 23 class, named after Dukedoms (""Norfolk"", ""Lancaster"", etc.). The Royal Navy's latest escort class - the Type 45 or ""Daring"" class - have"
"was built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend, Northumberland. Launched on 9 April 1921, she was completed in January 1922. Her port of registry was Liverpool. The code letters KLWT and United Kingdom Official Number 145925 were allocated. As a Royal Mail Ship, ""Laconia"" was entitled to display the Royal Mail ""crown"" logo as a part of its crest. In January 1923 ""Laconia"" began the first around-the-world cruise, which lasted 130 days and called at 22 ports. On 8 September 1925, ""Laconia"" collided with the British schooner ""Lucia P. Dow"" in the Atlantic Ocean east of Nantucket, Massachusetts,"
"the ship was to be named ""Gigantic"". One source is a poster of the ship with the name ""Gigantic"" at the top. Other sources are November 1911 American newspapers stating the White Star order for ""Gigantic"" being placed. According to Simon Mills, owner of the ""Britannic"" wreck, a copy of the Harland and Wolff order book held by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI Ref: D2805/SHIP/1) dated October 1911 (about six months before the ""Titanic"" disaster) already shows the name ""Britannic"". Tom McCluskie stated that in his capacity as archive manager and historian at Harland and Wolff, he"
"in the U.S. RMS Britannia RMS ""Britannia"" was an ocean liner of the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, later known as Cunard Steamship Company. She was launched on 5 February 1840, at the yard of Robert Duncan & Company in Greenock, Scotland. The ship and her sisters, ""Acadia"", ""Caledonia"", and ""Columbia"", were the first ocean liners built by the company. ""Britannia"" was a large ship for the period, 207 feet (63 m) long and 34 feet (10.3 m) across the beam, with three masts and a wooden hull. She had paddle wheels and her coal-powered two-cylinder"
"HMS Hibernia (1905) HMS ""Hibernia"" was a ""King Edward VII""-class pre-dreadnought battleship of Britain's Royal Navy. Like all ships of the class (apart from HMS ""King Edward VII"") she was named after an important part of the British Empire, namely Ireland. Commissioned in early 1907, she served as the flagship of the Rear Admirals of firstly the Atlantic Fleet and then the Channel Fleet. When the latter fleet was reorganised to the Home Fleet, she was based at the Nore. In 1912, ""Hibernia"" hosted trials in naval aviation with the temporary addition of a runway to her foredeck, and the"
"cost was £8,300 and like ""Valkyrie II"", ""Britannia"" was built at the D&W Henderson shipyard in Patrick on the River Clyde. With two such highly important commissions underway in the same yard, Watson delegated his protégé James Rennie Barnett to oversee both yachts. ""Britannia"" was launched on 20 April 1893, a week ahead of ""Valkyrie II"" and joined a fleet of first class cutters that was growing fast as others followed the royal lead. In a highly competitive fleet, ""Britannia"" soon set about achieving the race results which would eventually establish her as the most successful racing yacht of all"
"Britannia Britannia () has been used in several different senses. The name is a Latinisation of the native Brittonic word for the island, ""Pretanī"", which also produced the Greek form ""Prettanike"" or ""Brettaniai"", which originally, in the fourth to the first centuries BC, designated a collection of islands with individual names, including Albion or Britain. In Modern Welsh the name remains ""Prydain"". By the 1st century BC, Britannia came to be used for Great Britain specifically. After the Roman conquest in 43 AD, Britannia meant Roman Britain, a province covering the island south of Caledonia (roughly Scotland). When Roman Britain"
"she serves as a charter boat. Aberdonia (yacht) The Aberdonia is a British pre-war motor yacht moored at Chelsea Harbour. Built by the Thornycroft ship yard and launched in 1935 ""Aberdonia"" has a rich history, former uses include a patrol boat, mine sweeper and is one of the Little ships of Dunkirk. ""Aberdonia"" was requisitioned to work as a patrol boat in the Royal Navy attached to HMS ""Fervant"" in 1940, at which time she was renamed ""Navigator"". She participated in the evacuation of Allied troops at Dunkirk. The yacht is believed to have made four trips to the shore"
"earlier. The first piece of information was that the boat had once been called Tanagra and the second piece was that a previous owner, upon removing an old deck beam from up in the fo’csle, had come across the carved words: ""Harry 1885"". From these two pieces of information it was possible to discover who she was and where she came from. Lloyds Register was searched for mention of the name Tanagra and in 1923 a yacht of this name, that had similar length and tonnage characteristics to the hull found at Tollesbury, had been registered. The Lloyds list gives"
"feature of the annual regatta, which is now known as Cowes Week. In 1833, William IV renamed the club, The Royal Yacht Squadron. Its association with the Royal Navy began early and Nelson's captain at Trafalgar, Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, headed the list of naval members. The spirit of invention led to yachts ""of such celerity in sailing and beauty of construction"" that they were of utility to the Royal Navy. In 1829, the Admiralty issued a warrant to wear what is now the navy's White Ensign. The burgee (a triangular shaped flag identifying yacht club membership) is differenced with"
"Aberdonia (yacht) The Aberdonia is a British pre-war motor yacht moored at Chelsea Harbour. Built by the Thornycroft ship yard and launched in 1935 ""Aberdonia"" has a rich history, former uses include a patrol boat, mine sweeper and is one of the Little ships of Dunkirk. ""Aberdonia"" was requisitioned to work as a patrol boat in the Royal Navy attached to HMS ""Fervant"" in 1940, at which time she was renamed ""Navigator"". She participated in the evacuation of Allied troops at Dunkirk. The yacht is believed to have made four trips to the shore to take on men cut off"
"MV Britannia (2015) MV ""Britannia"" is a cruise ship of the P&O Cruises fleet. She was built by Fincantieri at its shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy. At , ""Britannia"" is the largest of seven ships currently in service with P&O Cruises and she is also the flagship of the fleet, taking the honour from ""Oriana"". She officially entered service on 14 March 2015, and was named by Queen Elizabeth II. Her first captain was Paul Brown. ""Britannia"" features a Union Flag on her bow, the largest of its kind in the world. ""Britannia"" was ordered in 2011 and was laid down"
"as HMS ""St George"" and once more on 2 June 1819 as HMS ""Barfleur"". She was third of seven ships to bear the name ""Britannia"", and was broken up at Plymouth in February 1825. She was known as ""Old Ironsides"" long before USS ""Constitution"". HMS Britannia (1762) HMS ""Britannia, also known as Old Ironsides"", was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered on 25 April 1751 from Portsmouth Dockyard to the draught specified in the 1745 Establishment. Her keel was laid down on 1 July 1751 and she was launched on 19 October"
"HMS Britannia (1762) HMS ""Britannia, also known as Old Ironsides"", was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered on 25 April 1751 from Portsmouth Dockyard to the draught specified in the 1745 Establishment. Her keel was laid down on 1 July 1751 and she was launched on 19 October 1762. The cost of building and fitting totalled £45,844/2s/8d. Her main gundeck armament of twenty-eight 42-pounder guns was later replaced by 32-pounders. In the 1790s ten of her quarterdeck guns and two of her forecastle guns were replaced by the same number of 32-pounder"
"definitive £2 coin was issued, with a new image of Britannia. She is also depicted in the Brit Awards statuette, the British Phonographic Industry's annual music awards. The first writer to use a form of the name was the Greek explorer and geographer Pytheas in the 4th century BC. Pytheas referred to ""Prettanike"" or ""Brettaniai"", a group of islands off the coast of North-Western Europe. In the 1st century BC, Diodorus Siculus referred to ""Pretannia"", a rendering of the indigenous name for the ""Pretani"" people whom the Greeks believed to inhabit the British Isles. Following the Greek usage, the Romans"
"scrappers, and towed to Germany for scrapping in November 1922. HMS Hibernia (1905) HMS ""Hibernia"" was a ""King Edward VII""-class pre-dreadnought battleship of Britain's Royal Navy. Like all ships of the class (apart from HMS ""King Edward VII"") she was named after an important part of the British Empire, namely Ireland. Commissioned in early 1907, she served as the flagship of the Rear Admirals of firstly the Atlantic Fleet and then the Channel Fleet. When the latter fleet was reorganised to the Home Fleet, she was based at the Nore. In 1912, ""Hibernia"" hosted trials in naval aviation with the"
"""Britain"" descends from the Latin name for Britain, ""Britannia"" or ""Brittānia"", the land of the Britons. Old French ""Bretaigne"" (whence also Modern French ""Bretagne"") and Middle English ""Bretayne"", ""Breteyne"". The French form replaced the Old English ""Breoton, Breoten, Bryten, Breten"" (also ""Breoton-lond, Breten-lond""). Britannia was used by the Romans from the 1st century BC for the British Isles taken together. It is derived from the travel writings of the Pytheas around 320 BC, which described various islands in the North Atlantic as far north as Thule (probably Norway). Marcian of Heraclea, in his ""Periplus maris exteri"", described the island group"
"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,"
"which was a commissioned ship in the Royal Navy, was known as HMY ""Britannia"". Otherwise all ships in the Royal Navy are known as HM Ships, though formerly when a distinction was made between three-masted ship-rigged ships and smaller vessels they would be called HM Frigate ""X"", or HM Sloop ""Y"". The prefix ""HMS"" is also used by shore establishments that are commissioned ""stone frigates"" in the Royal Navy. Examples include HMS ""Excellent"", a training school located on an island in Portsmouth Harbour, and HMS ""Vulcan"", in Caithness in the Highland area of Scotland, which is established to test the"
"on 17 May 1948 the ship's captain, Commander Christian Monsen, raised the command pennant on the renamed ""Norge"" for the first time, and on 9 June the Royal Yacht was handed over to King Haakon. She remains today one of only two Royal yachts still in service. In the early 1900s the Nicholson brothers developed a new motorised craft which would enable the owners to come from their ""big-boats"" before and after the competitions. Named the ""Gelyce"", it was an amalgam of the first and last letter of their respective wives: Gertie, Lucy, and Constance. After building at least ten"
"has ever been built in England. I hope that like her namesake she may work her way into the affections of all who have to do with her on both sides of the Atlantic. To the ship and all who serve or sail in her I wish all good fortune. I name you Mauretania."" Words of Lady Bates, the wife of Cunard White Star chairman Sir Percy Bates at the launch ceremony on 28 July 1938. The new ""Mauretania""s smart and stylish accommodation marked a further enhancement to the standards of cabins, public rooms and general facilities provided for passengers"
"Royal Yacht Squadron The Royal Yacht Squadron is one of the most prestigious yacht clubs in the world. Its clubhouse is Cowes Castle on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom. Member yachts are given the Suffix RYS to their names, and permitted to fly the White Ensign of the Royal Navy rather than the merchant Red Ensign flown by the majority of other UK registered vessels. The club's patron is Queen Elizabeth II and the club's admiral is Prince Philip who is also a former club commodore. Founded on 1 June 1815 in the Thatched House Tavern in"
"to be twin screw liners with service speeds of up to . Both were of identical appearance, with two funnels and two masts, with equal passenger capacity of just over 1,500. In the early planning stages, their intended names were to have been ""Empress of Germany"" and ""Empress of Austria"", but were later changed respectively to ""Empress of Britain"" and ""Empress of Ireland"", following the implementation of a policy that any future Canadian Pacific ship named in the ""Empress"" format would be respectively named after a dependency or colony of the British Empire. The vessel's keel was laid down on"
"Royal Cornwall Yacht Club Situated on the waterfront setting of the Greenbank area in Falmouth, the Royal Cornwall Yacht Club (RCYC) was formed in 1871, and is the 15th oldest “Royal” yacht club in England. In 1871 the forty-seven founding members of the club first elected Lord Wodehouse (the future second Earl of Kimberley) as Commodore. In June, 1872 sanction was given by the Admiralty for members of the Club to wear the defaced Blue Ensign and the Home Office gave permission for the word ""Royal"" to be incorporated in the Club's title. The first Patrons were Queen Victoria and"
"Navy (""Kaiserliche Marine""). Historian John Roberts has suggested that the request may have been attributable to the Royal Navy's practice of using small battleships and large cruisers as flagships of stations far from Britain, or it might have reflected the preferences of the First Sea Lord and Admiral of the Fleet John Fisher, preferences not widely shared. The Australian Government decided on the name ""Australia"", as this would avoid claims of favouritism or association with a particular state. The ship's badge depicted the Federation Star overlaid by a naval crown, and her motto was ""Endeavour"", reflecting both an idealisation of"
"and ""Atlantis"" were used in its assembly. NASA chose, on cost grounds, to build ""Endeavour"" from spares rather than refitting ""Enterprise"" or The orbiter is named after the British HMS ""Endeavour"", the ship which took Captain James Cook on his first voyage of discovery (1768–1771). This is why the name is spelled in the British English manner, rather than the American English (""Endeavor""). This has caused confusion, including when NASA itself misspelled a sign on the launch pad in 2007. The Space Shuttle carried a piece of the original wood from Cook's ship inside the cockpit. The name also honored"
"HMS Maidstone (1758) HMS ""Maidstone"" was a 28-gun ""Coventry""-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The vessel was named after Maidstone, a county town in Kent, England, south-east of London. In selecting her name the Board of Admiralty continued a tradition dating to 1644 of using geographic features for ship names; overall, ten of the nineteen ""Coventry""-class vessels were named after well-known regions, rivers or towns. With few exceptions the remainder of the class were named after figures from classical antiquity, following a more modern trend initiated in 1748 by John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich in his capacity as"