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  2. Marine chronometer - Wikipedia

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    Mechanical boxed Marine Chronometer used on Queen Victoria's royal yacht HMY Victoria and Albert, made about 1865. Ship’s marine chronometers are the most exact portable mechanical timepieces ever produced and in a static environment were only trumped by non-portable precision pendulum clocks for observatories. They served, alongside the ...

  3. Longitude by chronometer - Wikipedia

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    Longitude by chronometer is a method, in navigation, of determining longitude using a marine chronometer, which was developed by John Harrison during the first half of the eighteenth century. It is an astronomical method of calculating the longitude at which a position line, drawn from a sight by sextant of any celestial body, crosses the ...

  4. HMY Victoria and Albert (1899) - Wikipedia

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    She was completed in the summer 1901, seven months after the death of Queen Victoria. The total cost of the ship was £572,000, five-sevenths the cost of the battleship HMS Renown. The vessel had an antiquated look when launched as the design was made to resemble the 1855 side wheel steamer Victoria and Albert. Unlike yachts of other monarchs ...

  5. RNLB Queen Victoria - Wikipedia

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    RNLB Queen Victoria is an historic shore-based lifeboat, built in 1887, operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), and now preserved at The Shipwreck Centre, Arreton, Isle of Wight. [1] [2] A rowing boat, Queen Victoria operated from Bembridge on the Isle of Wight from 1887 to 1902. [2]

  6. HMY Victoria and Albert (1855) - Wikipedia

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    Queen Victoria 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] Queen Victoria lent the ship to Empress Elisabeth of Austria for her cruise to Madeira in 1860. [3]

  7. Dent (clocks and watches) - Wikipedia

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    Dent earned a Royal Warrant as the official watch and clockmaker to Queen Victoria and Albert Prince of Wales in 1841 – a warrant that would be renewed through to George V's reign. Russian emperors Tsar Alexander III and Tsar Nicholas II , and the Japanese Emperor Mejii also issued Dent with royal warrants.

  8. HMY Victoria and Albert (1843) - Wikipedia

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    HMY Victoria and Albert was a twin-paddle steamer launched 25 April 1843. She functioned as a royal yacht of the sovereign of the United Kingdom, owned and operated by the Royal Navy, and was the first of three royal yachts to be named Victoria and Albert. She was laid down in 1842 at Pembroke Dock and was designed by William Symonds.

  9. MS Queen Victoria - Wikipedia

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    MS Queen Victoria (QV) is a Vista-class cruise ship operated by the Cunard Line and is named after the former British monarch Queen Victoria.The vessel is of the same basic design as other Vista-class cruise ships, including Queen Elizabeth.