The new yacht will be announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson within weeks HMY Britannia was controversially decommissioned by Labour prime minister Tony Blair in 1997.

New yacht britannia. The Prime Minister has insisted the new national flagship super vessel - regarded as a replacement for Royal Yacht Britannia - will enter service in four years time and would provide UK. UK yacht designer Andrew Winch made drawings of the proposed replacement for Royal Britannia in 1997 but any notion of a new royal yacht was. The prime ministers official spokesperson said Boris Johnson hopes it will be built in the UK but that international rules on.

Britannia welcomes over 390000 visitors a year from all over the world. In service from 1954 until 1997 the original Royal Yacht Britannia was the 83rd official royal yacht of a British monarch since Charles II became King in 1660. Getty Images Boris Johnson has.

That decision signalled the end of an unbroken succession of royal yachts dating back to the reign of King Charles II the Duke wrote in Britannias official history in 2003. In her 43 years on the seas she travelled over a million nautical miles around the globe taking the Queen and Philip to such far-flung destinations as Fiji Kuwait and San Diego. To the dismay of the Queen Parliament decommissioned the yacht in 1997 citing upkeep costs.

A new national yacht which is reportedly set to cost 200m will be paid for out of the Ministry of Defences budget Downing Street has confirmed. The national flagship the successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia will sail the globe hosting trade talks. The new national flagship is.

Grandee Lord Clarke blasted the plan as nonsense in. Visit Insiders homepage for more stories. Costing up to 200 million the boat.

New Royal Yacht Britannia will pay for itself many many times over Health Secretary steps in to defend project after former Tory chancellor Lord Clarke calls it a complete. The successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia will not be named after the late Duke of Edinburgh as Prime Minister Boris Johnson had hoped. The new 200m ship will replace the Royal Yacht Britannia which was the 83rd and last last royal yacht after Tony Blair opted to not build a replacement.