HMY Victoria and Albert was a twin paddle steamer launched 25 April 1843. It functioned as a Royal Yacht

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 of the Sovereign

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 of the United Kingdom

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, owned and operated by the Royal Navy

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. She laid down in 1842 at Pembroke Dock

Pembroke Dock

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 and was designed by Symonds. She was 1,034 tons in displacement, carried two guns, and was the first royal yacht to be steam powered, being fitted with a 430 hp engine.

She made twenty voyages. After the launch on 16 January 1855 of HMY Victoria and Albert II

HMY Victoria and Albert II

HMY Victoria and Albert, a 360 foot steamer launched 16 January 1855, was a Royal Yacht of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom until 1900, owned and operated by the Royal Navy. She displaced 2,470 tons, and could make 15 knots on her paddles...

, she was renamed the Osborne. She was scrapped in 1868.