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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Queen Mary 2: 2003 2004–present Ocean liner 149,215 GT Bermuda: In service Queen Victoria: 2007 2007–present Cruise ship 90,049 GT Bermuda: In service Queen Elizabeth: 2010 2010–present Cruise ship 90,901 GT Bermuda: In service Queen Anne [9] 2024 2024-present Cruise ship 113,300 GT Bermuda: In service
He navigated with the Thomas Mercer chronometer he carried under his jerkin. [5] [6] In 1916, while serving in Egypt, Frank received a telegram from the Admiralty stating that the best way he could serve his country was to return home immediately and industrialise British chronometer production, to avoid an imminent shortage.
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.
Queen Victoria's sister Prince of Wales, on one occasion at least, made passage from the Rock Lighthouse, New Brighton to Douglas Head in 2hrs 59mins. [8] As a consequence of reckless price-cutting both companies lost money, and at the end of 1888, the Steam Packet Company bought the two Manx Line ships, both of which became reliable and valued ...
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 ...