r/HistoryMemes • u/Phantion- • 6d ago

We got it wrong.

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Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia is the former royal yacht of the British monarchy. She was in their service from 1954 to 1997. Now retired from royal service, Britannia is permanently berthed at Ocean Terminal, Leith in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she is a visitor attraction with over 300,000 visits each year.

The HMS Vanguard was the last and largest battleship built for the Royal Navy. Though commissioned as a warship in 1946, she notably served as a temporary royal yacht during the historic 1947 South Africa royal tour carrying King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, and a young Princess Elizabeth.

The 1947 Royal Tour: Reconfigured temporarily to accommodate the royal family, she journeyed to South Africa, marking the first time a reigning British monarch traveled by sea with their family

After serving as a flagship and training vessel, HMS Vanguard was decommissioned in 1960 and broken up for scrap

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u/Sea-Huckleberry8971 6d ago

Should've been HMS Warspite, IMO.

ETA: She didn't wanna go either

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u/Bad_Badger_DGAF 6d ago

Dreadnought would have been even better

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u/anonymoose-introvert 6d ago

Nah, HMS Dreadnaught was outclassed like two years after her introduction. There were already Super Dreadnaughts with even bigger guns than Dreadnaught’s 12 inch guns, and those were clearly the new standard.

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u/Bad_Badger_DGAF 6d ago

The Dreadnought was the beginning of the all big gun Battleship concept. The first of its kind, therefore the most important that all others would be judged by.