Registration number 263
Status Registered
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Royalty - port side view
  • Royalty - underway, on the Thames

Details

Function Passenger Vessel
Subfunction Excursion
Location Westminster
Vessel type Excursion
Current use Unknown
Available to hire No
Available for excursions No

Construction

Builder Salter Brothers Ltd, Oxford
Built in 1913
Hull material Steel
Rig None
Number of decks 2
Propulsion Motor
Number of engines 1
Primary engine type Diesel
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam
16.46 feet (5.02m)
Depth
5.08 feet (1.55m)
Length: Overall
100.92 feet (30.78m)
Tonnage: Gross
110.00

History

Built in 1913 by Salter Bros, Oxford, ROYALTY is a passenger vessel with a capacity for 200 passengers. She is built of steel and aluminium. Originally a steam vessel, she is now powered by an 8 cylinder Gardner engine. She was a hospital ship in World War II, having been commissioned by the Navy to tend sick and injured soldiers. Until recently (2025) she operated a service from Westminster to Greenwich and also ran charter trips.

Update, November 2025: Vessel for sale. 

Key dates

  • 2012

    Vessel selected for  Queen's Diamond Jubilee Pageant on 3 June 2012

Sources

Geoffrey Hamer, Trip Out 1995/6 - A Guide to the Passenger Boat Services of the British Isles, G P Hamer, 1995
 

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