Queen Elizabeth II christened many ships throughout her reign, both naval, scientific, and passenger vessels. The following is a list of all the ships she named during her lifetime, from HMS Vanguard to the cruise ship Britannia.
List of ships
+As PrincessNameImageAffiliationDate christenedLocation christenedStatusNotes Royal Navy30 November 1944John Brown and Company, Clydebank, ScotlandDecommissioned, Scrapped, 1960Last battleship built for BritainBritish PrincessBritish Tanker Co. Ltd.30 April 1946Sir James Laing & Sons Ltd, DeptfordScrapped in 1962Cunard White Star Line30 October 1947John Brown and Company, Clydebank, ScotlandWrecked, Scrapped 1974As Queen NameImageAffiliationDate ChristenedLocation ChristenedStatusNotesRoyal Yacht16 April 1953John Brown and Company, Clydebank, ScotlandDecommissioned in 1997, museum ship in Leith-Edinburgh, Scotland Shaw Savill Line17 August 1954Harland & Wolff, BelfastScrapped 2003*First merchant ship christened by Queen Elizabeth II Canadian Pacific Line22 June 1955Fairfield Shipbuilding in Govan, Glasgow, ScotlandScrapped 2008Cunard Line20 September 1967John Brown and Company, Clydebank, ScotlandHotel ship in DubaiRoyal Navy3 May 1977Vickers Shipbuilding Limited, Barrow-in-Furness, EnglandScrapped in 2011Royal Navy24 May 1990Yarrow Shipbuilders, Glasgow, ScotlandIn serviceRRS James Clark RossBritish Antarctic Survey 1st December 1990Swan Hunter Shipbuilders in Wallsend, UK In serviceSold in 2021 to National Antarctic Scientific Center of Ukraine, renamed NoosferaOrianaP&O Cruises6 April 1995Mayflower Terminal, Southampton, EnglandIn service Royal Navy11 October 1995Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd, Kværner (Govan)Decommissioned 2018, sold to Brazilian NavyMV HebridesCaledonian MacBrayne2 August 2000Ferguson Marine, Port GlasgowIn serviceRMS Queen Mary 2Cunard Line8 January 2004Queen Elizabeth II terminal, Southampton, EnglandIn serviceCunard Line10 October 2010Southampton, EnglandIn serviceRoyal Navy4 July 2014Rosyth dockyard near Edinburgh, ScotlandIn service P&O Cruises10 March 2015Southampton, EnglandIn service
Film links HMS Vanguard naming & launching (1944) British Princess tanker christening (1946) Caronia naming ceremony & launching (1947) Britannia christening & launching (1953) Southern Cross christening & launching (1954) Empress of Britain christening & launching (1955) QE2 christening & launching (1967) Oriana christening (1995) Queen Elizabeth naming ceremony (2010) HMS Queen Elizabeth naming ceremony (2014)
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