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{{short description|Museum ship, former royal yacht of the British monarch}}
{{For|the sail yacht of the same name|HMY Britannia (Royal Cutter Yacht)}}
{{Other ships|HMS Britannia}}
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|Ship name= ''Britannia''
|Ship owner=The Royal Yacht Britannia Trust<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk/the-trust/ | title=The Royal Yacht Britannia – The Trust | access-date=7 March 2014}}</ref>
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|Ship ordered=4 February 1952
|Ship builder=*[[John Brown & Company]], [[Glasgow]], Scotland 
|Ship yard number=691
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|Ship laid down=16 June 1952
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|Ship commissioned=11 January 1954
|Ship decommissioned=11 December 1997
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'''Her Majesty's Yacht ''Britannia''''' is the former [[royal yacht]] of the [[Monarchy of United Kingdom|British monarchy]]. She was in their service from 1954 to 1997. She was the 83rd such vessel since [[Charles II of England|King Charles II]] acceded to the throne in 1660, and is the second royal yacht to bear the name, the first being [[HMY Britannia (Royal Cutter Yacht)|the racing cutter]] built for the [[Edward VII|Prince of Wales]] in 1893. During her 43-year career, the yacht travelled more than {{convert|1|e6nmi|e6km|abbr=off|spell=in}} around the world to more than 600 ports in 135 countries.<ref name="MarinersMirror">{{cite journal |last1=Bellamy |first1=Martin |date=2022 |title=Editorial |journal=The Mariner's Mirror |volume=108 |issue=4 |pages=387 |publisher=[[Society for Nautical Research]]}}</ref> Now retired from royal service, ''Britannia'' is permanently berthed at [[Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh|Ocean Terminal]], [[Leith]] in [[Edinburgh]], Scotland, where it is a visitor attraction with over 300,000 visits each year.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk| title = The Royal Yacht Britannia Official Website {{!}} Best UK Attraction}}</ref>

==Construction==
[[Her Majesty's Ship|HMY]] ''Britannia'' was built at the shipyard of [[John Brown & Company|John Brown & Co. Ltd]] in [[Clydebank]], [[Dunbartonshire]]. She was [[Ships christened by Queen Elizabeth II|launched by Queen Elizabeth II]] on 16 April 1953, and commissioned on 11 January 1954. The ship was designed with three masts: a {{convert|133|ft|m|adj=on}} foremast, a {{convert|139|ft|m|adj=on}} mainmast, and a {{convert|118|ft|m|adj=on}} mizzenmast. The top aerial on the foremast and the top {{convert|20|ft|m|0}} of the mainmast were hinged to allow the ship to pass under bridges.

''Britannia'' it was claimed (as justification for the cost) was designed to be converted into a [[hospital ship]] in time of war,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/16/newsid_2846000/2846801.stm|title=1953: Queen launches Royal Yacht Britannia|publisher=BBC|work=On This Day|date=16 April 1953|access-date=17 August 2011}}</ref> however when the need came in the Falklands War this capability was exposed as being spurious as HMY Britannia, unique among the Royal Navy's fleet, required heavy fuel oil (common when she was commissioned but unique to her in 1982) and had only a 200-bed capacity. Instead, the 16,907-gross-register-ton (47,880&nbsp;m<sup>3</sup>) P&O liner [[SS Uganda (1952)|SS Uganda]], which was in the Mediterranean on an educational cruise with a thousand schoolchildren on board, was requisitioned, and modified to become a hospital ship.

In the event of [[nuclear war]], it was intended for the Queen and [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]], to [[Operation Candid|take refuge aboard ''Britannia'']] off the north-west coast of Scotland.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/7883972/Floating-bunker-plan-to-help-Queen-escape-nuclear-attack.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/7883972/Floating-bunker-plan-to-help-Queen-escape-nuclear-attack.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Floating bunker plan to help Queen escape nuclear attack|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=12 July 2010|author=Simon Johnson}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

==Crew==
[[File:Royal Yacht Britannia Crest (6287155424).jpg|thumb|Royal Yacht Britannia Crest]]

[[Royal Navy]] officers were appointed for up to two years.  The crew were volunteers from the general service of the Royal Navy. After 365 days' service, they could be admitted to the Permanent Royal Yacht Service as Royal Yachtsmen and serve until they chose to leave the service or were dismissed for medical or disciplinary reasons. As a result, some served for 20 years or more. The crew also included a detachment of [[Royal Marines]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dedicated Crew|url=https://www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk/about/life-below-decks/dedicated-crew/|access-date=2021-04-11|website=royalyachtbritannia.co.uk|language=en}}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> A contingent of [[Royal Marines Band Service|Royal Marines Band]] members embarked whenever ''Britannia'' was on duty away from home port.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Tuohy|first=William|date=1993-02-06|title=BRITAIN : Finances May Sink the Royal Yacht : The Britannia was used just 31 days in 1991 at a cost of $18 million.|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-02-06-mn-1060-story.html|access-date=2021-04-11|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref>

==History==
''Britannia'' sailed on her maiden voyage from [[Portsmouth]] to [[Grand Harbour]], [[Malta]], departing on 14 April and arriving on 22 April 1954. She carried [[Charles III|Prince Charles]] and [[Anne, Princess Royal|Princess Anne]] to Malta in order for them to meet the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the end of the royal couple's Commonwealth tour. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh embarked on ''Britannia'' for the first time in [[Tobruk]] on 1 May 1954.<ref name="officialhistory30-33">{{cite book|author=Richard Johnstone-Bryden|title=The Royal Yacht Britannia: The Official History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5b1vJc_zFNoC|year=2003|publisher=Conway Maritime|isbn=978-0-85177-937-9|pages=30–33}}</ref>

[[File:HMY Britannia Welland Canal 1959 MIKAN 4821456.jpg|left|thumb|HMY ''Britannia'' on the [[Welland Canal]] in Canada, en route to Chicago in 1959, as part of the celebration for the opening of the [[Saint Lawrence Seaway]]]]
[[File:HMY Britannia at the 1977 Spithead Fleet Review.jpg|thumb|right|''Britannia'' at the Spithead Fleet Review for the [[Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Silver Jubilee]], 1977]]
On 20 July 1959, ''Britannia'' sailed the newly opened [[Saint Lawrence Seaway]] en route from Canada to [[Chicago]], where she docked, making the Queen the first British monarch to visit the city. U.S. president [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] was aboard ''Britannia'' for part of this cruise; Presidents [[Gerald Ford]], [[Ronald Reagan]], and [[Bill Clinton]] were welcomed aboard in later years. Anne and [[Mark Phillips]] took their honeymoon cruise aboard the ship in 1973; Charles would do the same with [[Diana, Princess of Wales|Diana]] in 1981. The ship evacuated over 1,000 refugees from the civil war in [[Aden]] in 1986.<ref>[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1986/jan/21/aden-british-evacuation Aden: British Evacuation] ''Hansard'' HL Deb 21 January 1986 vol 470 cc131-4.</ref> The vessel sailed to Canada in 1991 and made a port of call in [[Toronto]] and [[Kingston, Ontario]].

HMY ''Britannia'', when on royal duties, was escorted by a Royal Navy warship. The yacht was a regular sight at [[Cowes Week]] in early August and, usually, for the remainder of the month, was home to the Queen and her family for an annual cruise around the islands off the west coast of Scotland (known as the "Western Isles Tour").

During her career as Royal Yacht, ''Britannia'' conveyed the Queen, other members of the Royal Family and various dignitaries on 696 foreign visits and 272 visits in British waters. In this time, ''Britannia'' steamed {{convert|1087623|nmi|km}}.<ref name="officialhistory298">Johnstone-Bryden, p. 298.</ref>

===Decommissioning===
[[File:HMY Britannia in the Pool of London for the very last time, 11-97 - geograph.org.uk - 144476.jpg|thumb|London, 1997]]
In 1994, the [[Premiership of John Major|Conservative government]] announced the yacht's retirement:
{{Blockquote| text      =The yacht last underwent a major refit in 1987. A further refit at an estimated cost of some £17 million would be necessary in 1996–97 but would only prolong her life for a further five years. In view of her age, even after the refit she would be difficult to maintain and expensive to run. It has therefore been decided to decommission "Britannia" in 1997. The Government will now consider the question of whether to replace "Britannia". | author    = Viscount Cranborne| source    =House of Lords Hansard: Written Answers 23 June 1994}}
In January 1997, the government committed itself to replacing the Royal Yacht if reelected.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Evans |first1=Michael |last2=Landale |first2=James |date=23 January 1997 |title=Taxpayers to fund Pounds 60m replacement for Britannia |work=[[The Times]] |location=London }}</ref> The timing of the announcement, close to a [[1997 United Kingdom general election|general election]], was controversial; ''[[The Guardian Weekly]]'' called it "part of a populist appeal to wavering Tory voters in the run-up to the general election" and reported that the Queen was "furious" that the Royal Family was "dragged into the centre of the election campaign, just as it is fighting to restore its public image."<ref>{{cite news |date=2 February 1997 |title=Royal family dragged into yacht row |work=Guardian Weekly |location=London}}</ref> [[Sir Edward Heath]] publicly objected to the government's handling of the issue, stating "The [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] above all must be an honourable party. And I don't believe the actions that have been taken are honourable ones and should never have been taken in this way."<ref>{{cite news |last=Parker |first=Andrew |date=28 January 1997 |title=Public against paying for new Royal yacht |work=The Scotsman |location=Edinburgh }}</ref>

The government argued that the cost was justified by its role in [[foreign policy]] and promoting British interests abroad, particularly through conferences held by [[British Invisibles]], formerly the Committee on Invisible Exports. It was estimated by the Overseas Trade Board that events held on board the yacht helped raise £3&nbsp;billion for [[HM Treasury]] between 1991 and 1995 alone.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/craighooper/2021/04/22/the-grey-zone-case-for-building-new-royal-and-presidential-yachts/?sh=221f266d3a47 |title=The Grey Zone Case For Building New Royal And Presidential Yachts |last=Hooper |first=Craig |date=22 April 2021 |website=Forbes}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk/about-the-royal-yacht/great-british-ambassador/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160130050742/https://www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk/about-the-royal-yacht/great-british-ambassador/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-01-30|title=Great British Ambassador|publisher=The Royal Yacht Britannia Trust|access-date=23 January 2016}}</ref>

The [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] opposition announced it would not commit the use of public funds for a replacement vessel for at least the first two years of any new Labour government.<ref>{{cite news |last= Brown|first=Colin |date=28 January 1997 |title=Poll shows that yacht plan is a vote loser |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/poll-shows-that-yacht-plan-is-a-vote-loser-1285523.html |work=The Independent |location=London |access-date=2020-06-08 }}</ref> After its election victory in May 1997, the new government considered multiple options for the future of a royal yacht, but concluded in October of that year that ''Britannia'' would not be replaced:
{{Blockquote| text=We made clear that we would not spend public money on a Royal Yacht and I am keeping that promise. We in the Ministry of Defence have to justify every penny of the taxpayers' money that we spend and in this case I could not do so, particularly – as the Queen has made clear – since a Yacht is not needed for Royal travel. We considered in detail all private finance options, but these would only have been viable with a substantial annual subsidy from public funds.| author=[[George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen|George Robertson]], Defence Secretary| source=<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/11638.stm|title = BBC News &#124; Special Report &#124; Britannia says goodbye to nation}}</ref>}}

The Royal Yacht's final foreign mission was to convey the last [[Governor of Hong Kong]], [[Chris Patten]], and the Prince of Wales back from [[Hong Kong]] after [[transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong|its handover]] to the People's Republic of China on 1 July 1997. ''Britannia'' was decommissioned on 11 December 1997. The Queen, normally undemonstrative in public, was reported to have cried at the decommissioning ceremony that was attended by most of the senior members of the Royal Family.<ref>{{cite news | title = Pay for your own yacht, PM tells Queen| newspaper = The Age| date = 17 January 2012 | url = https://www.theage.com.au/world/pay-for-your-own-yacht-pm-tells-queen-20120117-1q3vw.html#ixzz1jhQdB04A| access-date =17 January 2012}}</ref>

==Visitor attraction==
Listed as part of the [[National Historic Fleet]], ''Britannia'' is a visitor attraction moored in the historic [[Port of Leith]] in [[Edinburgh]], Scotland, and is cared for by the Royal Yacht Britannia Trust, a registered charity.<ref>{{Scottish charity|SC028070|Royal Yacht Britannia Trust}}</ref> There was some controversy over the siting of the ship, with some arguing that she would be better moored on the [[River Clyde]], where she was built, than in Edinburgh, with which the yacht had few links. Her positioning in Leith coincided with a redevelopment of the harbour area.

Entrance to the yacht is via the Ocean Terminal development, and over 300,000 people visit the Royal Yacht ''Britannia'' every year. She is one of the UK's top evening events venues. On 18 May 2006, the Swiss-born Hollywood actress and first [[Bond girl]], [[Ursula Andress]], celebrated her 70th birthday on board.  On 29 July 2011, a drinks reception was held on board ''Britannia'' for Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter [[Zara Phillips]] and her then fiancé, [[Mike Tindall]], to celebrate their forthcoming wedding.<ref>{{cite news | first = Scott | last = Heppell | title = UK watches year's second, low key, royal wedding | date = 30 July 2011| url = https://news.yahoo.com/uk-watches-years-second-low-key-royal-wedding-124440795.html | publisher = Yahoo News | access-date =30 July 2011}}</ref>

An early [[Land Rover series|Land Rover]] in much-restored shape is displayed in the on-board garage and a retired [[Rolls-Royce Phantom V]] [[Official state car#United Kingdom|state car]] is parked on the wharf below the ship. The tour of the five decks open to the public includes the Queen's bedroom, which can be viewed behind a glass wall, and the state dining and drawing rooms, which hosted grand receptions for kings and queens, presidents and prime ministers throughout the world. The clocks on board are stopped at 3:01, the time that the Queen last disembarked.<ref>{{cite magazine
| last       = Hubbard
| first      = Lauren
| date       = 30 September 2018
| title      = The Story Behind the Royal Family's Yacht, Britannia
| url        = https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a23456210/royal-yacht-britannia-history/
| magazine   = Town & Country
| location   = New York, NY
| publisher  = Hearst Magazine Media, Inc
| access-date= 3 August 2019
}}</ref> The royal deck tea room was added in 2009.

The 1936 racing yacht {{Ship||Bloodhound|yacht|2}}, once owned by the Queen and Prince Philip, is now berthed alongside ''Britannia''. ''Bloodhound'' was one of the most successful ocean-racing yachts ever built and was the yacht on which King Charles III and [[Anne, Princess Royal|the Princess Royal]] learned to sail. The Royal Yacht ''Britannia'' Trust bought ''Bloodhound'' in early 2010 and she is the centrepiece of an exhibition focusing on the Royal Family's passion for sailing. Visitors can view ''Bloodhound'' from a specially built pontoon when the racing yacht is in port. During July and August, she is berthed in Oban marina and is available for private charter, as she sails around the islands once visited by the Royal Family during their annual [[fortnight]] holiday in the [[Western Isles]] of Scotland. During this period, Royal Yachtsmen (Yotties) from ''Britannia'''s original crew sail the yacht for the Britannia Trust.

From 2019, the [[MV Fingal|MV ''Fingal'']] has been permanently berthed near ''Britannia'' at the Albert Dock Basin.&nbsp; The ''Fingal'' is a former [[Northern Lighthouse Board]] ship converted into a [[boutique hotel]] owned by the Royal Yacht Britannia Trust.<ref name=":SY1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.fingal.co.uk/your-ship/|title=About The Ship &#124; Luxury Floating Hotel Fingal Edinburgh|website=fingal.co.uk}}</ref>

==Proposals for successor==
Proposals for the construction of a new royal yacht, perhaps financed through a loan or by the royal family's own funds, have made little headway. In 2019 it was reported that the late [[Donald Gosling|Sir Donald Gosling]] donated £50 million in his will to pay for it.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/sir-donald-gosling-will-leaves-50-million-to-pay-for-new-royal-yacht-k26lhs5pz|title=Sir Donald Gosling will leaves £50 million to pay for new royal yacht|last=Malvern|first=Jack|date=2019-12-12|work=[[The Times]]|access-date=2019-12-17|language=en|issn=0140-0460}}</ref>

In May 2021, Prime Minister [[Boris Johnson]] announced the construction of a new royal yacht, named after [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]]. He said that the "new national flagship" – a ship rather than a luxury yacht – would enter service within the next four years and cost up to £200 million.<ref>{{cite web |title=UK to build £200m national flagship to promote British industry abroad |url=https://news.sky.com/story/uk-to-build-200m-national-flagship-to-promote-british-industry-abroad-12320242 |publisher=Sky News |access-date=30 May 2021 |language=en |date=29 May 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Plans for new national flagship to promote 'best of British' |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57293882 |publisher=BBC News |access-date=30 May 2021 |date=30 May 2021}}</ref> By 2022 plans had progressed to two favoured design teams,<ref>{{cite news |last=Hope |first=Christopher |title=Modern and heritage designs battle it out to build HMY Britannia's £250m replacement |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2022/05/24/modern-heritage-designs-battle-build-hmy-britannias-250m-replacement |website=The Telegraph |access-date=29 May 2022 |date=29 May 2022}}</ref> and cost estimates were up to £250m, with annual running costs of up to £30m.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Allegretti |first=Aubrey |last2= |first2= |date=2022-11-07 |title=Sunak sinks new royal yacht plan in favour of ocean surveillance ship |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/07/sunak-sinks-new-royal-yacht-plan-in-favour-of-ocean-surveillance-ship |access-date=2025-09-29 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> In November 2022, the [[Sunak ministry|Sunak government]] cancelled the plans in favour of the procurement of a [[Multi-Role Ocean Surveillance Ship|multi-role ocean surveillance ship]].<ref name=":0" />

==Commanding officers==
*[[Captain (Royal Navy)|Captain]] J. S. Dalglish, 7 January – 28 April 1954
*[[Vice admiral (Royal Navy)|Vice Admiral]] Sir [[Conolly Abel Smith]], 28 April 1954 – 30 January 1958
*Vice Admiral Sir [[Peter Dawnay]], 30 January 1958 – 25 January 1962
*[[Rear admiral (Royal Navy)|Rear Admiral]] Sir [[Joseph Henley]], 25 January 1962 – 9 March 1965
*Rear Admiral Sir [[Patrick Morgan]], 9 March 1965 – 1 September 1970
*Rear Admiral Sir [[Richard Trowbridge]], 1 September 1970 – 11 September 1975
*Rear Admiral Sir [[Hugh Janion]], 11 September 1975 – 4 February 1981
*Rear Admiral Sir [[Paul Greening]], 4 February 1981 – 12 September 1985
*Rear Admiral Sir [[John Garnier (Royal Navy officer)|John Garnier]], 12 September 1985 – 18 September 1990
*Rear Admiral Sir [[Robert Woodard (Royal Navy officer)|Robert Woodard]], 18 September 1990 – 1 April 1995
*[[Commodore (Royal Navy)|Commodore]] [[Anthony Morrow (Royal Navy officer)|Anthony Morrow]], 1 April 1995 – 11 December 1997<ref name="officialhistory297">{{cite book |first=Richard |last=Johnstone-Bryden |title=The Royal Yacht ''Britannia'': The official history |location= London |publisher=Conway Maritime Press |year=2003 |page=297 |isbn=0-85177-937-9}}</ref>

==See also==
* ''[[K1 Britannia]]'', a planned replica of King George V's racing yacht ''[[HMY Britannia (Royal Cutter Yacht)|Britannia]]'' to be used for charitable purposes.
* ''[[MV Hebridean Princess|Hebridean Princess]],'' twice chartered by Queen Elizabeth II since the retirement of HMY ''Britannia.''
* ''[[Gloriana (barge)|Gloriana]]'', a [[Royal barge]] in operation since 2012
*[[List of royal yachts of the United Kingdom]]
*[[British Royal Train|The Royal Train]]
*[[Bentley State Limousine]]
*[[Air transport of the Royal Family and government of the United Kingdom|Air transport of the Royal Family]]
*[[Operation Candid]], a Cold War era contingency plan involving HMY ''Britannia''.

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Sources==
* [https://www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk/media/1806/technical-paper.pdf Shepeard, Victor (1954). "Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia"]
* [https://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=3498&vessel=BRITANNIA HMY ''Britannia'' (Caledonian Maritime Research Trust Database)]

==External links==
{{Commons category|IMO 8635306}}
* [https://www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk Official website of the Royal Yacht ''Britannia'']
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2Rx7ec3bBE Newsreel of the Queen launching ''Britannia'' (1953)]
* [https://www.portsmouth-guide.co.uk/local/britannia.htm HMY ''Britannia'' entering Portsmouth videos]

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