Ships christened by Queen Elizabeth II explained

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II christened many ships throughout her reign, both naval, scientific, and passenger vessels. The following is a list of all the ships she named during her lifetime, from HMS Vanguard to the Britannia.

List of Ships

As Princess
Name	Image	Affiliation	Date Christened	Location Christened	Status	Notes
HMS Vanguard		Royal Navy	30 November 1944	John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland	Decommissioned, Scrapped, 1960	Last battleship built for Britain
British Princess		British Tanker Co. Ltd.	30 April 1946^[1]	Sir James Laing & Sons Ltd, Deptford^[2]	Scrapped in 1962
RMS Caronia		Cunard White Star Line	30 October 1947^[3]	John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland	Wrecked, Scrapped 1974
As Queen
Name	Image	Affiliation	Date Christened	Location Christened	Status	Notes
HMY Britannia		Royal Yacht	16 April 1953	John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland	Decommissioned in 1997, Museum ship in Leith-Edinburgh, Scotland
SS Southern Cross		Shaw Savill Line	17 August 1954^[4]	Harland & Wolff, Belfast	Scrapped 2003	First merchant ship christened by Queen Elizabeth II
RMS Empress of Britain		Canadian Pacific Line	22 June 1955^[5]	Fairfield Shipbuilding in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland	Scrapped 2008
Queen Elizabeth 2		Cunard Line	20 September 1967^[6]	John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland	Hotel Ship in Dubai
HMS Invincible		Royal Navy	3 May 1977	Vickers Shipbuilding Limited, Barrow-in-Furness, England	Scrapped in 2011
HMS Lancaster		Royal Navy	24 May 1990^[7]	Yarrow Shipbuilders, Glasgow, Scotland	In service
RRS James Clark Ross			1st December 1990^[8]	Swan Hunter Shipbuilders in Wallsend, UK	In service	Sold in 2021 to National Antarctic Scientific Center of Ukraine, renamed Noosfera^[9]
Oriana		P&O Cruises	6 April 1995^[10]	Mayflower Terminal, Southampton, England	In service
HMS Ocean		Royal Navy	11 October 1995	Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd, Kværner (Govan)	Decommissioned 2018, sold to Brazilian Navy
RMS Queen Mary 2		Cunard Line	8 January 2004^[11] ^[12]	Queen Elizabeth II terminal, Southampton, England	In service
Queen Elizabeth		Cunard Line	10 October 2010^[13]	Southampton, England	In service
HMS Queen Elizabeth		Royal Navy	4 July 2014	Rosyth dockyard near Edinburgh, Scotland^[14]	In service
Britannia		P&O Cruises	10 March 2015^[15]	Southampton, England^[16]	In service

Film Links

• HMS Vanguard naming & launching (1944)
• British Princess tanker christening (1946)
• Caronia naming ceremony & launching (1947)
• Britannia christening & launching (1953)
• Southern Cross christening & launching (1954)
• Empress of Britain christening & launching (1955)
• QE2 christening & launching (1967)
• Oriana christening (1995)
• Queen Elizabeth naming ceremony (2010)
• HMS Queen Elizabeth naming ceremony (2014)

Sources

1. Web site: British Princess (launched 1946) Co-Curate . 2022-11-14 . co-curate.ncl.ac.uk.
2. Web site: Motor Vessel BRITISH PRINCESS built by Sir James Laing & Sons Ltd. in 1946 for British Tanker Co. Ltd., London, Tanker . 2022-11-14 . sunderlandships.com.
3. Web site: Pathé . British . Princess Elizabeth Launches The 'caronia' . 2022-11-14 . www.britishpathe.com . en-GB.
4. Web site: Southern cross . 2022-11-23 . belfasttelegraph . en.
5. Web site: Pathé . British . Queen Launches Empress Of Britain . 2022-11-23 . www.britishpathe.com . en-GB.
6. Web site: 2016-04-26 . Cunard celebrates Queen Elizabeth II and four ships she launched, in photos . 2022-11-23 . Los Angeles Times .
7. Web site: The Queen and the Royal Navy: A golden thread running through our shared histories . 2022-11-14 . www.royalnavy.mod.uk . en.
8. Web site: RRS James Clark Ross . 2022-11-23 . British Antarctic Survey . en-GB.
9. Web site: RRS James Clark Ross sold . 2022-11-23 . British Antarctic Survey . en-GB.
10. News: 2018-07-02 . Oriana cruise ship to leave service in Southampton . en-GB . BBC News . 2022-11-14.
11. Web site: 2004-01-09 . A song and a prayer as largest liner is named . 2022-11-14 . the Guardian . en.
12. Web site: Passenger . Cruise . 2022-09-15 . Thank you Ma'am - how the Queen was a maritime champion, christening a record 21 ships . 2022-11-14 . Cruise Passenger . en-US.
13. Web site: Mathisen . Monty . 2010-10-11 . Queen Elizabeth Christened by Her Majesty The Queen . 2022-11-14 . www.cruiseindustrynews.com . en-gb.
14. Web site: THE QUEEN CHRISTENS ROYAL NAVY'S NEW AIRCRAFT CARRIER . 2022-11-14 . Britain Magazine The official magazine of Visit Britain Best of British History, Royal Family,Travel and Culture . en-GB.
15. News: Queen officially names new cruise ship 'Britannia' - CBBC Newsround . en-GB . 2022-11-14.
16. Web site: Photo tour: Ship christenings with Queen Elizabeth II . 2022-11-23 . www.usatoday.com . en.