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List of royal yachts of the United Kingdom

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Ships of the Royal Navy
  • fleet aircraft carriers
  • escort carriers
  • seaplane carriers
  • amphibious assault shipping
  • battlecruisers
  • dreadnought battleships
  • pre-dreadnought battleships
  • ironclads
  • bomb vessels
  • breastwork monitors
  • corvettes and sloops
  • cruisers
  • destroyers
  • torpedo boats
  • fireships
  • frigates
  • gun-brigs
  • gunboats and gunvessels
  • mine countermeasure vessels
  • monitors
  • patrol and attack craft
  • royal yachts
  • ships of the line
  • submarines
  • support ships
  • survey vessels
  • shore establishments
  • hospitals and hospital ships
  • air stations
  • aircraft wings
  • fleets and major commands
  • squadrons and flotillas
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    This is a list of royal yachts of the United Kingdom. There have been 84 royal yachts since the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. King Charles II had 25 royal yachts and five were simultaneously in service in 1831. Occasionally merchantmen or warships have been chartered or assigned for special duty as a temporary royal yacht, for example the steamship Ophir in 1901 and the battleship HMS Vanguard in 1947. In 1997 HMY Britannia was decommissioned and not replaced. Since 1998, following a successful national tender process, the Royal Yacht Britannia has been berthed permanently at the Port of Leith in Edinburgh.[citation needed] There are currently no British royal yachts, although MV Hebridean Princess has been used by the Royal Family.[1]

    Ships

    * Not HMY

    Notes

    1. ^ Witchell, Nicholas (23 July 2010). "Queen heads off on Hebridean adventure". BBC News.
    2. ^ 40-year-old Ship Makes Last Trip; Empress of Australia, "Luxury Liner and Troop Carrier, on Way to Scrap Heap", New York Times. 1 May 1952.

    References

    • Madge, Tim (1997). Royal Yachts of the World. Thomas Reed Publications. pp. 182–3. ISBN 0-901281-74-3.
    • Fenwick, Valerie and Gale, Alison (1998), Historic Shipwrecks, Discovered, Protected and Investigated, pp112–113 Tempus Publishing Limited, ISBN 0-7524-1473-9. Describes the Mary and mentions Katherine and Phineas Pett.
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