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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 ...
Britannia (royal cutter yacht) (1893–1936) RMS Empress of Britain (1931–1940) RMS Empress of Australia (1939) [7] HMS Renown (1916): used in 1920 for the Prince of Wales Empire tour and in 1927 by the Duke and Duchess of York to visit Australia; HMS Vanguard (1947): battleship used to take George VI and family to South Africa; Gothic (1952 ...
In April 1995 Morrow was appointed Flag Officer, Royal Yachts and subsequently took command of the Royal Yacht Britannia. [2] He served as captain during the Handover of Hong Kong in 1997 when the yacht took the Governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, and the Prince of Wales back to the United Kingdom following the transfer of sovereignty. [3]
She was designed by George Lennox Watson and built alongside HMY Britannia at the D&W Henderson shipyard, Meadowside, Partick on the River Clyde, Scotland in 1893 for owner Lord Dunraven of the Royal Yacht Squadron. Valkyrie II had a steel frame, a wooden hull, and a pine deck. She challenged unsuccessfully for the America's Cup in 1893.
The exact wording on the plinth reads: “Prior to its unveiling on August 15th 1995, this monument was placed alongside HMS “Britannia” in Durban Harbour, to be viewed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh during their State Visit to Durban on 24 March 1995.” The name of the vessel should read "HMY Britannia".
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HMY Britannia: Royal Yacht: 16 April 1953 John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland: Decommissioned in 1997, Museum ship in Leith-Edinburgh, Scotland SS Southern Cross: Shaw Savill Line: 17 August 1954 [4] Harland & Wolff, Belfast: Scrapped 2003 *First merchant ship christened by Queen Elizabeth II RMS Empress of Britain: Canadian Pacific ...