) A painting of HMY Victoria and Albert by William Frederick Mitchell | |
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| Name: | HMY Victoria and Albert |
| Namesake: | Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince Consort |
| Launched: | 16 January 1855 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, c.1904 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Royal yacht |
| Displacement: | 2390 tons when deep |
| Length: | 360 ft (110 m) |
| Beam: | 40 ft (12 m) |
| Installed power: | 2,400 ihp (1,800 kW)[1] |
| Propulsion: | Steam engineTwin paddles |
| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Complement: | 240 |
HMY Victoria and Albert, a 360-foot (110 m) steamer launched 16 January 1855, was a royal yacht of the sovereign of the United Kingdom until 1900, owned and operated by the Royal Navy. She displaced 2,390 tons,[1] and could make 15 knots (28 km/h) on her paddles. There were 240 crew.
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Career
The Queen made her first cruise in her on 12 July 1855.[1]
On 3 June 1859, Victoria and Albert ran aground in the Scheldt whilst on a voyage from Gravesend, Kent to Antwerp, Belgium.[2]
The ship was used by Prince Arthur on the occasion of his visit to Heligoland in 1872.[3]
Victoria and Albert was replaced by HMY Victoria and Albert (1899) in 1901 and scrapped in about 1904.
El Horria was built to the same specifications for Isma'il Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt in 1865 and survives today, although heavily altered.
Notable commanding officers
Notes
- ^ a b c Mrs. M. Griffith (1894). "Queen Victoria's Yacht The Victoria and Albert". The Strand Magazine – via Digital History Project.
- ^ "Her Majestey's Yacht Ashore". The Times (23325). London. 6 June 1859. col E, p. 10.
- ^ Rüger, p68
- ^ The Navy List (1891), p. 264
- ^ David Gagan (1973). The Denison Family of Toronto: 1792-1925. University of Toronto Press. p. 42. ISBN 9781487597368.
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References
- Rüger, Jan (2017) Heligoland: Britain, Germany and the Struggle for the North Sea Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-967246-2.
External links
Media related to HMY Victoria and Albert II (ship, 1855) at Wikimedia Commons
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