An “excited” lieutenant has taken up command of a Royal Navy vessel for the first time. Lt Jack Mason will be in charge of HMS Dasher, a Portsmouth-based P2000 patrol boat. He took the reins from ...
The owner wanted to sell the whole collection along with the actual museum in a historic Cornish harbour as one unit ...
as well as from the Royal Yacht Britannia, Admiral Nelson and HMS Victory. When the sale of the museum was announced, SBC Property in Truro said Smit Associates Ltd. was looking to consolidate its ...
HMS Conqueror closed in to shadow Belgrano ... that it presented no immediate threat to the British Task Force. "Britannia waives the rules" screamed the headline of one morning paper at the ...
She was broken up in 1819. HMS Barfleur was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line launched in 1762 as HMS Britannia (1762). She was renamed HMS Barfleur in 1819 and was broken up in 1825. HMS Barfleur ...
The one now for sale was awarded to Captain Robert Moorsom, who commanded the 74-gun ship HMS Revenge at Trafalgar ... and the figures of Victory and Britannia. It has Moorsom's initials of ...
Owned by Sir Tim Smit, co-founder of the Eden Project, the museum houses treasures gathered from the wrecks of the Mary Rose, Titanic, Lusitania and the Royal Charter, as well as from the Royal Yacht ...
Britannia had three masts ... Philip kept a model of his first naval command, the HMS Magpie, above his desk. The telephones connecting the sitting rooms to each other and their private ...
The Royal Yacht Britannia was the royal family's private yacht from 1953 to 1997. The luxurious cruise ship is now a public museum.