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HMY Britannia was built at the shipyard of John Brown & Co. Ltd in Clydebank, 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 133-foot (41 m) foremast, a 139-foot (42 m) mainmast, and a 118-foot (36 m) mizzenmast.
Britannia ' s spinnaker boom, held outside at Carisbrooke Castle. Britannia ' s 51-foot (16 m) long gaff, the king's chair, tiller, some mast hoops, blocks and rigging, anchor chain and clock are preserved in the Sir Max Aitken Museum in Cowes High Street and the remains of her spinnaker boom are at Carisbrooke Castle, also on the Isle of Wight ...
In its 44 years of service, the HMY Britannia traveled around 1.1 million miles. The State Room on the royal yacht. Pool/Tim Graham Picture Library - Getty Images.
Hampshire and Dorset shipwrecks Collision of HMY Albee with the Mistletoe; New York Times archive Review of the Fleet 1897; The Royal Yacht Britannia, Leith, Edinburgh. Visitor attraction and evening events venue. The list of Navy vessels for December 1695 (House of Commons Journal)
The Royal Yacht Britannia, 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.
HMY Britannia; HMS Britannia (1820) C. TSS Cambria (1897) D. SS Dieppe (1905) HMHS Dover Castle; G. SS Galeka; HMHS Glenart Castle; H. HMS Hecla (A133) HMS Herald (H138)
HMY Britannia (Royal Cutter Yacht) E. RMS Empress of Australia (1919) F. HMY Fairy; G. SS Gothic (1947) O. HMY Osborne (1870) R. Royal Adelaide (1834) HMY Royal ...
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