HMY Britannia

Britannia sailed on her maiden voyage from Portsmouth to Grand Harbour, Malta, departing on 14 April and arriving on 22 April 1954. She carried Prince Charles and 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. in Canada, en route to Chicago in 1959, as part of the celebration for the opening of the Saint Lawrence Seaway]] , 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…

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 ft foremast, a 139 ft mainmast, and a 118 ft mizzenmast. The top aerial on the foremast and the top 20 ft of the mainmast were hinged to allow the ship to pass under bridges. Britannia was additionally designed to be converted into a hospital ship in time of war, however when the need came in the Falklands War this role went unfulfilled as Britannia, unique among the Royal Navy's fleet, required heavy fuel oil (common when she was commissioned but unique to her…