Australia •
SS Gothic (1947) Austria-Hungary •
Phantasie •
Miramar Belgium •
La Clémentine (1897–1918) •
Alberta (1896–1914) •
Falcao Uno (1965) •
Alpa IV (2009–2022)
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) •
HDMS Kronprindsens Lystfregat (1785) •
HMDY Kiel (1824–1840) •
HDMY Ægir (1841–1855) •
HMDY Slesvig (1855–1879) •
HDMS Jylland (1874–1885) – a
frigate which served as a royal yacht on occasion. •
HDMY Dannebrog (1879–1932) •
HDMY Dannebrog (1932–present)
Egypt •
Mahroussa (also known as
El Horria) (1866–1951) was built for
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 Hohenzollern (1878–1912); renamed
SMY Kaiseradler in 1892 •
SMY Hohenzollern II (1893–1914) •
SMY Hohenzollern III (begun in 1914 but never finished) The
Kriegsmarine fleet tender
Grille was built as a state yacht for
Adolf Hitler.
Greece •
Amphitrite Hawaii • ''
Cleopatra's Barge (1820–1824) renamed Haʻaheo o Hawaiʻi'' ("Pride of Hawaii") •
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 •
Savoia (1883–1904) •
Trinacria (1900–1925), former steamship
America •
Savoia (1923–1944)
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. •
Jingei (1881–1903) A wooden-hulled paddle steamer designed by Léonce Verny. •
Hatsukaze (1902–1945) presented by Baron Hisaya Iwasaki to the Crown Prince (later
Emperor Taisho) to commemorate his visit of the
Mitsubishi Shipyard in Nagasaki.
Jordan King
Hussein of Jordan was aboard his royal yacht (name not reported) in the
Gulf of Aqaba when on 7 June 1981 it was overflown by eight low-flying Israeli
F-16s en route to attack the Osirak reactor in Iraq during
Operation Opera. One of the pilots described it as 'stunning white... incredible'.
Monaco •
Princess Alice (1891 by Prince Albert I) •
Deo Juvante II (1956–1958 by Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace) •
Carostefal (1964 by Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace) •
Stalca (1971–1972 by Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace) •
Pacha III (1990–present by Princess Caroline)
Morocco •
El Boughaz I (2006–present)
Netherlands •
Koningssloep (1818–present) •
De Groene Draeck (1957–present) •
Jumbo VI (1997-2005), a Moonen 85 •
Aldebaran (2014–2021), a Wajer 38 •
Alma (2021–present), a Wajer 55
Norway King Haakon VII received the royal yacht
Norge as a gift from the people of Norway in 1947. The royal yacht is owned by the king but maintained and crewed by the
Royal Norwegian Navy. Before this other naval ships had served as royal sea transport and the king used some smaller boats for short trips mostly on official occasions. •
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:
Ottoman Empire The Imperial Ottoman Government used many yachts for its head of state. These include: •
Tesrifiye •
İzzeddin • •
Talia •
Ertuğrul The
Republic of Turkey also has
presidential yachts
Portugal •
Veloz (): 1858 •
Sirius (): 1876 •
Amélia I (): 1888 •
Amélia II (): 1897 •
Amélia III (): 1898 •
Amélia IV (): 1901 The Portuguese King
Charles I used four successive royal yachts, all named
Amélia, after his wife, Queen
Amélie of Orleans. These yachts were, mainly, used by Charles I for his oceanographic missions. It was in the
Amélia IV that King
Manuel II and the Portuguese royal family left the country for the exile, after the republican revolution of 5 October 1910. In the republican regime, the
Amélia IV was integrated in the
Portuguese Navy as the survey ship NRP
5 de Outubro.
Romania •
Ștefan cel Mare •
Luceafarul Russia in Sevastopol in 1909 Imperial yachts employed by the
Tsar of Russia: •
Alexandria (I) (1851–1906) •
Standart (I) (1857–1892) •
Derzhava (1871–1905) •
Tsarevna (1874–1917) •
Livadia (1873–1878); wrecked in
Crimea October 21–22, 1878 •
Livadia (1880–1926); flawed experimental ship, retired and
hulked soon after commissioning. Used by the Romanovs only twice. •
Polyarnaya Zvezda (1890–1917/1961) •
Alexandria (II) (1904–1917/1927) •
Standart (II) (1895–1917/1936–1961 as
Soviet Navy minelayer Marti)
Saudi Arabia •
Prince Abdulaziz (1984–) Now owned by descendants of Prince
Sultan bin Abdul Aziz •
Al Riyadh (1978–) •
Al Salamah (1999–) •
Issham al Baher (1973–)
Spain •
Giralda (1900–1912) • The luxury yacht
Fortuna belonged to
King Juan Carlos I until he renounced it in 2013.
Sweden •
Vasaorden (1774–present) •
Drott (1883–1923)
United Arab Emirates Dubai is the personal yacht of Sheikh
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai and
Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates. Completed in 2006, she is the third largest yacht currently in service at long. She came to world media attention when she sailed out to welcome the retired
ocean liner,
Queen Elizabeth 2 to Dubai in November 2008. Another personal yacht of the Sheikh is the
Alloya, built by Sanlorenzo in 2013.
United Kingdom (before 1881) The United Kingdom has had 83 royal yachts since the restoration of
Charles II of England in 1660. Charles II himself had 25 royal yachts, while five were simultaneously in service in 1831. Since the decommissioning of in 1997 the British monarchy no longer has a royal yacht.
Other nations The
Principality of Monaco owned the princely yacht
Deo Juvante II between 1956–1958. This
Camper and Nicholsons yacht was a wedding gift from Aristotle Onassis to Prince Rainer and Grace Kelly and was used on their honeymoon. The yacht, now called M/Y
Grace, is now owned and operated by Quasar Expeditions.
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 . 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==