William IV of the United Kingdom William IV of the United Kingdom William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837. The third son of George III, William succeeded his elder brother George IV, becoming the last king and penultimate monarch of Britain's House of Hanover. William served in the Royal Navy in his youth, spending time in North America and the Caribbean, and was later nicknamed the "Sailor King". In 1789, he was created Duke of Clarence and St
Sailor of the King the British admiralty, especially as Mountbatten admired the novel. It was the first American film shot on real British naval ships. They used the ships HMS "Glasgow", "Cleopatra" and "Manxman" - the latter was disguised as the German raider. The studio had to cover the cost of fuel. The British crews pronounce the Galapagos Islands (where the 'Essen' is thought to be in hiding) as Galla-pay-gos and not the more accepted term of Galla-pa-gus. Sailor of the King Single-Handed is a 1953 war film based on the novel "Brown on Resolution" by C. S. Forester and (despite being largely set