What was the name of the British Royal Yacht that entered service in 1953 and decommissioned on 11 December 1997?
Air transport of the British royal family and government form of a royal travel grant-in-aid provided by the Department for Transport. Later in 1997, the Royal Yacht "Britannia" was retired and not replaced, and the Royal Household was given authorisation to acquire a helicopter for its private use. The Royal Helicopter and the Royal Train are insufficient to meet all the travel requirements of the Royal Family, even for domestic travel. The Queen does not travel on scheduled flights, but the rest of the family does whenever possible. Members of the family are normally flown on private charters, either large fixed-wing aircraft, small fixed-wing aircraft, or helicopters, depending on
Royal yacht de Outubro" and operated by the Portuguese Navy. Imperial yachts employed by the Tsar of Russia: Saudi royal yachts have included the following: The United Kingdom has had 83 royal yachts since the restoration of King Charles II in 1660. Charles II himself had 25 royal yachts, while five were simultaneously in service in 1831. Since the decommissioning of in 1997 the Queen no longer has a royal yacht. She has since, on occasion, chartered other vessels, such as . Other nations that employ some form of yacht presently or in the past include China, Iran, Sarawak and Sweden. The