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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 ...
Mechanical boxed Marine Chronometer used on Queen Victoria's royal yacht, made about 1865 Omega 4.19 MHz (4 194 304 = 2 22 high frequency quartz resonator) Ships Marine Chronometer giving an autonomous accuracy of less than ± 5 seconds per year, French Navy issued,1980
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.
Queen Victoria has been the name of several ships: PS Queen Victoria (1838) , a wooden paddlewheel steamer that was wrecked in 1853 off Bailey Lighthouse, Howth, with the loss of over 80 people TS Queen Mary , originally sailed as TS Queen Victoria from 1933 to 1935
Queen Victoria sent the ship to Vlissingen to ferry Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany accompanied by his wife Victoria, their three youngest daughters, Professor Gerhardt, two court officials and two ladies-in-waiting across the Channel to be treated of his throat illness in England by Dr. Mackenzie. They alighted in Sheerness on 15 ...
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]
Queen Mary was retired from service on 9 December 1967, and sold to the city of Long Beach, California. Queen Elizabeth was retired after her final crossing to New York, on 8 December 1968. [6] She was moved to Port Everglades, Florida, and converted to a tourist attraction, which opened in February 1969. The business was unsuccessful, and ...
HMY Fairy was a small royal yacht and tender to the HMY Victoria and Albert (1843).Built in 1844 by Ditchburn and Mare at Leamouth, she was commissioned in 1845. [1]She was 146 feet long with a beam of 21 feet and was 312 tons burden, and was able to cruise in shallow waters and as well as her duties as a tender, she sailed from London to Scotland, transported Queen Victoria up and back down ...