Royal yacht
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A royal yacht is a ship used by a monarch or a royal family. If the monarch is an emperor the proper term is imperial yacht. Most of them are financed by the government of the country of which the monarch is head. The royal yacht is most often crewed by personnel from the navy and used by the monarch and their family on both private and official travels.
Some royal yachts have been small vessels only used for short trips on rivers or in calm waters, but others have been large seaworthy ships.
History
Depending on how the term is defined royal yachts date back to the days of antiquity with royal barges on the Nile in ancient Egypt.
Later the Vikings produced royal vessels. They followed the pattern of longships although highly decorated and fitted with purple sails (purple sails remained standard for royal vessels the next 400 years).[1]
In England,
The first ships to unquestionably qualify as royal yachts were those owned by
Yachts by country
Australia
Austria-Hungary
- Phantasie
- Miramar
Belgium
- La Clémentine (1897–1918)[3]
- Alberta (1896–1914)[4][5]
- Falcao Uno (1965 [6][7]
- Alpa IV (2009–2022)[8][9][10]
Denmark
The Danish royal family have had several royal yachts. Two of them have been named Dannebrog.
- HMDY Sophia Amalia (1650–1687)
- HMDY Elephanten (1687–1721)
- HMDY Kiel (1824–1840)
- HDMY Ægir (1841–1855)
- HMDY Slesvig (1855–1879)
- HDMS Jylland (1874–1885) – a frigatewhich served as a royal yacht on occasion.
- HDMY Dannebrog (1879–1932)
- HDMY Dannebrog(1932–present)
Egypt
- Isma'il Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt. She passed the Suez Canal during its opening. Lengthened twice, she was converted from paddle steamer to screw propellers. She now serves as a school ship for the Egyptian Navy.
Germany
During the existence of the German Empire, the Kaiser used these imperial yachts:
- SMY Kaiseradlerin 1892
- SMY Hohenzollern II (1893–1914)
- SMY Hohenzollern III (begun in 1914 but never finished)
The
Greece
Hawaii
- Cleopatra's Barge (1820–1824) renamed Haʻaheo o Hawaiʻi ("Pride of Hawaii")[13]
- Kamehameha III (until 1849), seized by the French when they invaded Honolulu
Iran
- Naseruddin
- Mozaffari (1902–1914), turned into gunboat
- Chahsevar (1936–1979), turned into corvette
- Kish (1970–1979), turned into training ship
Italy
Japan
- Banryu (1857–1888) An iron screw schooner, she was given to the shōgun Tokugawa Iesada by Queen Victoria to commemorate the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce.[15]
- Jingei (1881–1903) A wooden-hulled paddle steamer designed by Léonce Verny.
- Emperor Taisho) to commemorate his visit of the Mitsubishi Shipyard in Nagasaki.[16]
Jordan
King
Monaco
- Princess Alice (1891 by Prince Albert I) 53 m (174 ft)[18][19]
- Deo Juvante II (1956–1958 by Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace) 45 m (147 ft)[20]
- Carostefal (1964 by Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace) 18 m (59 ft)[21]
- Stalca (1971–1972 by Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace) 25 m (82 ft)[22]
- Pacha III (1990–present by Princess Caroline)[23]
Morocco
- El Boughaz I(2006–present)
Netherlands
- Koningssloep (1818–present)
- De Groene Draeck (1957–present)
- Jumbo VI (1997-2005), a Moonen 85[24]
- Aldebaran (2014–2021), a Wajer 38[25][26]
- Alma (2021–present), a Wajer 55[27][28]
Norway
- Sophia Amalia (1650–?)
- Elephanten (1687–1721)
- Heimdal(1892–1946)
- Stjernen I (1899–1940)
- Stjernen II (1945–present)
- Norge (1947–present)
- Horten (1985)
Oman
The Oman Royal Yacht Squadron operates the following major vessels from Muscat and Muttrah in Oman:
Name | Length (m) | Shipyard | Year | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
Al Said | 155[29] | Lürssen, Germany | 2007 | Has a helipad, orchestra and swimming pool. It is berthed in Mutrah port most of the time
|
Fulk al Salamah[30] | 165 | Mariotti Yachts, Italy | 2016 | Replacement support vessel and secondary yacht. |
Al Dhaferah[31] |
136 | Bremer Vulkan, Germany | 1987 | Retained as logistics and helicopter support ship. |
Zinat al Bihaar[32] | 61 | Oman Royal Yacht Squadron[33] | 1988 | Luxury sailing yacht built in Oman with imported engine from Siemens |
Al-Noores | 33.5[34] | K. Damen Netherlands | 1982 | Specialized tug boat for the other royal yachts |
Ottoman Empire
The Imperial Ottoman Government used many yachts for its head of state.[35] These include:
- Tesrifiye
- İzzeddin
- Sultaniye
- Talia
- Ertuğrul
The
Portugal
- Veloz (22.6 m or 74 ft): 1858
- Sirius (22.5 m or 74 ft): 1876
- Amélia I (35 m or 115 ft): 1888
- Amélia II (45 m or 148 ft): 1897
- Amélia III (55 m or 180 ft): 1898
- Amélia IV (70 m or 230 ft): 1901
The Portuguese King
Romania
Russia
Imperial yachts employed by the
- Alexandria (I) (1851–1906)
- Standart (I) (1857–1892)
- Derzhava (1871–1905)
- Tsarevna (1874–1917)
- Livadia (1873–1878); wrecked in CrimeaOctober 21–22, 1878
- hulked soon after commissioning. Used by the Romanovs only twice.[38]
- Polyarnaya Zvezda (1890–1917/1961)
- Alexandria (II) (1904–1917/1927)
Saudi Arabia
- Sultan bin Abdul Aziz
- Al Riyadh (1978–)
- Al Salamah (1999–)
- Issham al Baher (1973–)
Spain
- Giralda (1900–1912) 95 m (312 ft) [citation needed]
- The luxury yacht Fortuna belonged to
Sweden
United Arab Emirates
Another personal yacht of the Sheikh is the 40-metre (130 ft) Alloya, built by Sanlorenzo in 2013.[43][44]
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had 83 royal yachts since the restoration of Charles II of England in 1660.[45] Charles II himself had 25 royal yachts,[46] while five were simultaneously in service in 1831.[47] Since the decommissioning of Britannia in 1997 the British monarchy no longer has a royal yacht.[48]
Other nations
The
Yugoslavia had some royal yachts before World War II (most notably, one was a sister ship of Ilinden which sank in Lake Ohrid in 2009).
Zanzibar had only one naval ship in 1896, the royal yacht HHS Glasgow. It was sunk by the British during the shortest war in history, the Anglo-Zanzibar War.
Other nations that employ some form of yacht presently or in the past include China and Sarawak.
See also
References
Citations
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- ^ Madge 1997, p. 25.
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- ^ "ALBERTA". Ships Nostalgia. 27 May 2020. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ^ "Falcao Uno". www.superyachttimes.com. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ^ "Un clásico con alma 'Rolls Royce' | Baleares | Nauta 360". nauta360.expansion.com. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ^ "Inside ALPA Yacht • Posillipo Technema • 2009 • Value $2 million • Owner King Albert of Belgium". SuperYachtFan. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
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- American Neptune. Vol. 63, no. 1. pp. 5–45. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2010-03-11.
- ^ Cecilia Zizzola. "Dai panfili reali ai moderni megayacht di oggi". portbyport.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02.
- ^ King, Ian. "HMS Emperor (1857) (1st) Iron Screw Yacht". Britain's Navy. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
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- ^ Claire 2004, pp. 173–174.
- ^ "Alice Heine — the First American Princess of Monaco". HelloMonaco. 2019-06-18. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ^ "Princesse Alice | Royal Yachts". yachts.monacoeye.com. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ^ Delahaye, Julie (2018-06-11). "You can now holiday on Grace Kelly's former yacht and it's pretty amazing". mirror. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ^ "Monaco's yachting history in pictures". www.superyachttimes.com. 24 September 2018. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
- ^ "Stalca & Deo Juvante II, 2 yachts for the Princess Grace of Monaco". HelloMonaco. 2018-08-13. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
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- ^ "De Valk verkoopt de Moonen 85 'Jumbo VI'". De Valk. 2009-03-13. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
- ^ "Koning Willem-Alexander telt €7 ton neer voor nieuwe speedboot". Quote Net. 2014-08-04. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
- ^ "TrendingVandaag: koning koopt speeltje van 7 ton". 1Vandaag. 2014-08-04. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
- ^ "Dutch King orders new 2-million euro yacht from Frisian boat builder | The Northern Times". northerntimes.nl. 8 June 2020. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ^ "Queen Maxima and King Willem-Alexander apologize for vacation photo". HOLA. 2020-08-24. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
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- ^ "Motor Yacht – Al-Noores – K. Damen – Completed Superyachts on Superyacht Times .com". superyachttimes.com.
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- ^ By Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia on her maiden voyage from Brest to Ferrol, Spain and by Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia as a passenger on the Black Sea.
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- ^ Burgen, Stephen (18 November 2013). "Spanish taxpayers pay price as king goes from have-yacht to have-not". the Guardian. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
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Sources
- Claire, Rodger (2004). Raid on the Sun: Inside Israel's Secret Campaign that Denied Saddam the Bomb. Broadway Books. ISBN 978-0-7679-1400-0.
- Article in Vi Menn magazine number 31 2006
- Madge, Tim (1997). Royal Yachts of the World. East Molesey, Surrey, UK: Thomas Reed. ISBN 978-09012-8-174-6.
Further reading
- Frampton, Viktor (2012). "Question 25/46: Imperial German Yachts". Warship International. XLIX (3): 225–226. ISSN 0043-0374.
- Alan, Major (2011). Royal Yachts. Stroud, UK: Amberley Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4456-0189-2.
External links
- Media related to Yachts of heads of state at Wikimedia Commons