[186] In December, the couple embarked on a three-day tour of England, Scotland, and Wales via the British royal train "to pay tribute to the inspiring work of individuals, organisations and initiatives across the country" in 2020. 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[40] During 2020 Prince of Wales was at sea just 30 days, compared to 115 days for Queen Elizabeth. [224] He was recognised at the British LGBT Awards in May 2017. [71] William described working irregular shifts and dealing mostly with critical care cases. [332] The couple's lawyers also contacted the photographer, who claimed he was on public roads and had filmed the video after hearing about allegations that the Prince and Princess had broken the "rule of six" as they toured a public attraction at Sandringham while William's uncle and aunt, the Earl and Countess of Wessex, and their children happened to be in the same spot. [167] The couple toured Canada once again in September 2016. He served as a full-time pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance for two years, starting in July 2015. [56] On 26 January 2010, he transferred to the Search and Rescue Training Unit at RAF Valley, Anglesey, to receive training on the Sea King search and rescue helicopter; he graduated in September 2010. [223] In 2016, he appeared in the July issue of Attitude and became the first member of the royal family to be featured on the cover of a gay magazine. [44] As "Lieutenant Wales"a name based on his father's title Prince of Waleshe followed his younger brother[45] into the Blues and Royals as a troop commander in an armoured reconnaissance unit, after which he spent five months training for the post at Bovington Camp, Dorset.[46]. [29] He was known as "Steve" by other students to avoid any journalists overhearing and realising his identity. British registered ships aimed at assisting researchers to finding their crew documents. To enable the craft to fit into the docking area the navigation and radar masts are fitted with Linak actuators so that they can be lowered automatically from the command console. Made the first complete record of British registered ships, from 1855 to the 1950s, with 200,000 entries from the Appropriation Books at RSS in Cardiff. 1564 Flight from February to March 2012. [18], When on operations, Prince of Wales will form a central part of a UK Carrier Strike Group, comprising escorts and support ships, with the aim to facilitate carrier-enabled power projection. Hell, Every ship larger than a 900-tonne Flower-class corvette has a machineshop for maintenance, and it wouldn't take long for enterprising crew to un-weld the breeches of a battleship's lighter guns. William performs official duties and engagements on behalf of the King. William was made Duke of Cambridge prior to his marriage to Catherine Middleton in 2011. Prince of Wales was commissioned into service. In late March 2020, William and Catherine began supporting a new mental health initiative by the Public Health England amidst the coronavirus pandemic. [259] William attributes his interest in mental health to his experiences as an air ambulance pilot, his work with the homeless, veterans' welfare, and his wife's anti-addiction advocacy.[260]. M/S of the Prince pinning medal onto lapel of jacket. [17] In October 2021, the Royal Navy declared the ship as fully operational. With our small band of volunteers from around the world, and with the help of many archivists, we have: We have now completed all the transcription projects that we manage. The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales has been given a colourful send-off as it sailed past a music festival on its way to exercises off the coast of America. [320] In August 2015, Kensington Palace published a letter detailing what it stated were the "dangerous" and invasive efforts of the media to get paparazzi pictures of Prince George and Princess Charlotte. In 2020, again as President of the English FA, he voted against the joint AustraliaNew Zealand 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup bid and instead voted for Colombia. [218][219][220][221] The charity has since been renamed The Royal Foundation. [33][34] Similar to his time at Eton, the media agreed not to invade William's privacy, and students were warned not to leak stories about him to the press. [47][48] Upon completing the course he was presented with his RAF wings by his father,[49] who had received his own wings after training at Cranwell. [2] The ship's commissioning date marked the 78th anniversary of the sinking of her predecessor, a World War II era battleship which was lost in action along with HMSRepulse in 1941. WW2DB site administrators reserve the right to moderate, censor, and/or remove any comment. [227] In April 2020, he made a surprise appearance in The Big Night In, a 20 April 2020 telethon held during the COVID-19 pandemic, in a skit which he held a video call with Stephen Fry, who revised his role as (a descendant of) Lord Melchett, from the Blackadder series. [251] He had previously called for harsher punishments and penalties for poachers and smugglers at the Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference in 2018. HMS Prince of Wales, a 35,000-ton King George V class battleship built Birkenhead, England, was completed in March 1941. 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The itinerary included visiting the Plunket Society for children and visiting fire-damaged areas in New South Wales. [114] Catherine's third pregnancy was announced on 4 September 2017;[115] Prince Louis was born on 23 April 2018. [18], The two ships of the Queen Elizabeth class are each expected to be capable of carrying forty aircraft, a maximum of 36 Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II stealth multirole fighters and four AgustaWestland Merlin helicopters. He suffered a depressed fracture of the skull and was operated on at Great Ormond Street Hospital, resulting in a permanent scar. [163] In April 2016, William and his wife undertook a tour to India and Bhutan. RF 2CMG6T0 Superstructure and bridge of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales moored at Portsmouth Harbour, Hampshire. This was followed by more significant flooding in October 2020 which caused damage to her electrical cabling. RM 2B7G2XX Weymouth, Dorset, UK. During the attack and sinking, a total of 327 sailors were lost, including Vice-Admiral Phillips and Captain Leach. Removing the breech blocks of the welin-threaded main rifles is basically 'the least-bad option of several bad options' [345], In Canada, a personal heraldic banner for the Prince of Wales was first issued in 2011, consisting of the shield of the Arms of Canada defaced with both a blue roundel of the Prince of Wales's feathers surrounded by a wreath of gold maple leaves, and a white label of three points. [215] William succeeded Lord Attenborough in 2010 as the fifth president of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. [303], The death of William's mother while being chased by paparazzi in 1997[304] has influenced his attitude towards the media. UK Weather. Superimposed is an escutcheon Vert bearing the single-arched coronet of the Prince of Wales. [19], Much like her sister ship Queen Elizabeth, the original 2008 design of Prince of Wales envisaged flying F-35B Lightning II Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) jets from a ski-jump ramp. Because he is listed on the HMS Prince of Wales crew list on our website. [44] As of September 2013[update] six landing spots are planned, but the deck could be marked out for the operation of ten medium helicopters at once, allowing the lift of a company of 250 troops. [28] On 1 September 2017 HMS Prince of Wales' most senior officer, Captain Ian Groom, confirmed that the carrier was now essential to fulfilling the Royal Navy's 'full carrier strike capability. [136] In 2009, the Queen set up a private office for William and Harry with David Manning as their adviser. Alongside that we provide data and image sets relating to We've divided them into three sections: People, Ships and Documents, For more detail on our data and the sources we have used, please click here: first read carefully through the details on this site. The ship will then return to Portsmouth for a pre-planned maintenance period.. [143][144] In May 2011, William and Catherine met with U.S President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at Buckingham Palace. She is the eighth Royal Navy ship to have the name HMSPrince of Wales. complicated tale and if you really are stuck, do please get in touch. She was one of two ships of the London- or Queen sub [18] This involved joint operations with her sister ship HMS Queen Elizabeth. Harold Barlow Ordinary Seaman. [300][301], In April 2011, Time magazine selected him as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. The 4.5 million renovation took 18 months. [252], Since 2009, William has been the patron of Child Bereavement UK, which provides support for children and families who have lost a loved one. [33], The Prince of Wales was due to commence sea trials in 2019 with a view to being commissioned in late 2019. Made the first full transcription from the shipping registers for a group of ports. Her first exercise in this role was Cold Response 22, a Norwegian-led exercise which is designed to test her crew in this role. [180][181] In March and April 2019, William spent three weeks working for MI6, MI5 and GCHQ. [351], William descends matrilineally from Eliza Kewark, a housekeeper for his eighteenth-century ancestor Theodore Forbesa Scottish merchant who worked for the East India Company in Surat. Their commander, Admiral Sir Thomas Spencer Vaughan Phillips, Each 13.1m (43ft) long PTB carries 36 passengers and two crew to operate the vessel and is davit-launched. However, we know that the records of ships and seafarers are a William wrote his dissertation on the coral reefs of Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean and graduated with an undergraduate Master of Arts (MA Hons) degree with upper second class honours in 2005. So it's probably best to stay away from that one. British shipping, at that time the largest merchant fleet in the world, is also well documented and we explain how to access those records too. In April 2016, William, his wife Catherine and his brother Harry initiated the mental health awareness campaign "Heads Together" to encourage people to open up about their mental health issues. M/S of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII / Duke of Windsor) shaking hands with dignitaries. In 2011, the Canadian Heraldic Authority introduced a personal heraldic flag for the Duke of Cambridge's use in Canada. [315] Under French law, punitive damages cannot be awarded[316] but intrusions of privacy are a criminal offence carrying a maximum jail sentence of one year and a fine of up to 45,000 for individuals and 225,000 for companies. 24th - The PRINCE OF WALES, with workers from Cammell Laird and Vickers Armstrong still embarked,escorted by destroyers QUANTOCK, LIDDESDALE and AVON VALE sailed from [93][94][95], On 16 November 2010, Clarence House announced that William and Catherine were to marry; the couple had become engaged in Kenya in October. HMS Prince of [90] Middleton and her family attended the Concert for Diana in July 2007 at Wembley Stadium,[83] where she and Prince William sat two rows apart. [253] In 2016, the Royal Foundation launched multiple mental health initiatives, including Heads Together, a campaign led by William, Catherine and Prince Harry to de-stigmatise mental health. [43] The hangars are designed for CH-47 Chinook operations without blade folding and for the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor, whilst the aircraft lifts can accommodate two Chinooks with unfolded blades. Hi Everyone, It's the 66th anniversary of the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse today. 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[26] This was later confirmed in the government's 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review. We are delighted to help with advice about finding records (that's what CLIP and this web site is all about) but please do not ask us The site also provides information and data about the records of British merchant shipping with records of every British registered ship from 1855 to the 1950s - all 200,000 of them. Japanese submarine I-58 spotted British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse off British Malaya, launched five torpedoes, but all of them missed; beginning at 1117 hours, Japanese aircraft began to attack. William had six godparents: former King Constantine II of Greece (his paternal second cousin once removed); Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Mrs Ogilvy (his paternal first cousin twice removed); the Duchess of Westminster; Lady Susan Hussey; Lord Romsey (his paternal second cousin once removed); and Sir Laurens van der Post. [294] Following this controversy, Kensington Palace also released a statement saying an investiture is "not on the table" with William visiting Cardiff with plans to tell the people of Wales that there are no formal plans for an investiture ceremony, aware of the controversy of the 1969 event. To commemorate World Mental Health Day on 11 October 2021, William and Catherine posted a message on Instagram, sharing several organisations that support those who are struggling with mental health. [261] In April 2020, the couple announced Our Frontline, an initiative providing mental health support to emergency medical workers. Compiled a further 470,000 records of ships from the Mercantile Navy List, making the largest database of British registered ships of the era. 2. [182] William and Catherine toured Pakistan in October 2019, which was the royal family's first visit to the country in 13 years. [279][280][281] In December 2010, William and Prime Minister David Cameron attended a meeting with FIFA vice-president Chung Mong-joon at which Chung suggested a vote-trading deal for the right to host the 2018 World Cup in England. [236], In March 2022 and amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, William and Catherine made a donation to help the refugees. [25], During the 2014 NATO Summit in Wales, Prime Minister David Cameron announced that Prince of Wales would be brought into active service, rather than sold off or mothballed. [331], William has been a British prince since birth. Despite his qualifications as a military helicopter pilot, William needed a civil pilot's licence and further training before being permitted to take command of the Air Ambulance. [84][85] In 2004, the couple briefly split but continued their relationship soon afterwards. [133] Upon graduating from university, William began royal duties in support of, and on behalf of, the Queen at official events, public engagements, and overseas tours. On 21 December 2017, Prince of Wales was floated out of Rosyth drydock #1 for the first time and manoeuvred to a nearby jetty for fitting-out and further systems integration. [248], In early 2021, William made a private donation to the Thin Green Line Foundation, which provides grants for the relatives of conservation park rangers that are killed every year while protecting wildlife. [282][283] In 2011, William as President of the English FA, voted against Australia's 2022 FIFA bid and instead voted for South Korea; despite being the country's future heir. [54] He was a part of the crew on the Lynx helicopter which helped seize 900kg of cocaine from a speedboat. [164] Activities included visiting children's charities such as Childline India, as well as a visit to Lingkana Palace. Roll of Honour . [211] In 2012, together with his wife Catherine and Prince Harry, William launched Coach Core. We enjoy dealing with awkward questions; we don't think there is such a thing as a silly question, and we often [17] The royal family and the tabloid press agreed that William would be allowed to study free from intrusion in exchange for regular updates about his life. [242] In 2013, he succeeded his grandfather Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, as president of the UK charity Fields in Trust. [88][89], In April 2007, William and Middleton ended their relationship. [124] As the eldest son of the King, William has inherited the Duchy of Cornwall, which brings him an additional income. [87] Media attention became so intense that William asked the press to keep their distance from Middleton. [59] In November 2011, he participated in a search-and-rescue mission involving a cargo ship that was sinking in the Irish Sea; William, as a co-pilot, helped rescue two sailors. The site provides information about the records of British seafarers and ships, and access to the CLIP maritime database: The CLIP site provides information and data about the records of British merchant seafarers, mainly from 1863 to 1913. [305] Analysts from The Times believed the photographs were taken from the D22 (Vaucluse) road half a kilometre from the poola distance that would require an 800-mm or a 1000-mm lens. [56] It was reported that an external coupling that connects the outer propeller shaft to the drive shaft from the propulsion motors had failed. [241] William has occasionally commented on the effects of overpopulation on the wildlife of Africa, but his remarks have been criticised for not taking resource consumption and population density into consideration, both of which affect wildlife in rich and developed countries. [7], He was the first child born to a Prince and Princess of Wales since Prince John was born to Prince George and Princess Mary (later King George V and Queen Mary) in 1905. "[17], After completing his studies at Eton, William took a gap year, during which he took part in British Army training exercises in Belize,[30] worked on English dairy farms, and visited Africa. The flag is divided into four quadrants like the arms of the Chief of Clan Stewart of Appin; the first and fourth quadrants comprise a gold field with a blue and silver checkered band in the centre; the second and third quadrants display a black galley on a silver field. ", "The life of Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, in pictures", "Inside the Life of Zara and Mike Tindall the Royals Next Door", "Prince Harry and Meghan: Where do they get their money? from our data, or from other data sites, or by helping you find the original documents so that you can order copies. [210] In May 2007, William became patron of MREW and president of The Royal Marsden Hospital, the latter of which was a role previously held by his mother. [116], William and Catherine have owned two English Cocker Spaniels, named Lupo and Orla. [331] It was recorded by Harris in January 2021 and shows William arguing with Harris as he attempts to film his family on a bike ride near Anmer Hall. An undisclosed RN spokesperson told BBC: Repairs to HMS Prince of Wales starboard shaft are expected to be completed by spring 2023. [152][153][154] The Prince hosted his first investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace in October 2013. Prince William noted that another equally improbable leak had recently taken place regarding an appointment he had made with a knee surgeon. This was followed by more significant flooding from the fire control system in October 2020 which caused damage to her electrical cabling. learn something along the way. The program was set up following the 2012 Olympics and provides apprenticeship opportunities for people who desire to pursue a career as a professional coach. An 18-month study commenced into the conversion but ultimately found that it would cause severe cost implications and delays. William, then aged 15, together with his 12-year-old brother and their father, was staying at Balmoral Castle at the time.
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