HMS Prince Consort (1862) HMS Prince Consort (1862) HMS "Prince Consort" was the first ship to carry this name in the Royal Navy. Laid down as HMS "Triumph", at HM Royal Dockyard, Pembroke as a 91-gun screw second-rate line-of-battle ship, she was renamed HMS "Prince Consort" on 14 February 1862 following the death of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the Prince Consort of Her Royal Highness Queen Victoria. Her first posting after commissioning was to Liverpool; on her passage there, in an Irish Sea gale, it was found that she did not have enough scuppers fitted to discharge seawater coming aboard, and almost
Armonico Consort mass gala concert involving over 1,500 children at the Royal Albert Hall, Around the World in 18 Tunes, scheduled for March 2013. Armonico Consort Armonico Consort is a British company founded in 2001 by conductor (music) and organist Christopher Monks, which specialises in producing performances of Renaissance music and Baroque music. In 2002 the company oversaw the creation of a series of academies designed to provide choral training for schoolchildren. The company’s period musicians and instrumentalists have an international reputation in the field, and its partners and collaborators have included Sir Willard White, Dame Emma Kirkby, and Dame Evelyn Glennie.