X-Nico

unusual facts about Royal William


Royal William

SS Royal William, Canadian ship launched in 1831 and the first ship that crossed the Atlantic Ocean almost continually under steam power 1833.


HMS Clarence

The third Clarence, originally a 120 first-rate ship of the line called HMS Royal William launched in 1833, reduced to a 72-gun screw ship in 1860, renamed to Clarence in 1885 and used as a training ship.


see also

John Saxton Campbell

The steamer Royal William of Samuel Cunard's Quebec and Halifax Steam Navigation Company was built at Campbell's shipyard.

Maritime history of Scotland

As Scotland and England moved closer during the seventeenth century, following the Union of the Crowns, the need for a navy to protect Scotland from the English Royal Navy lessened and by the time of the Union with England in 1707, the Royal Scottish Navy possessed just three ships: The Royal William, The Royal Mary, and Dumbarton Castle.

Odo, Earl of Kent

On screen, Odo has been portrayed by John Nettleton in the two-part BBC TV play Conquest (1966), part of the series Theatre 625, and by Denis Lill in the TV drama Blood Royal: William the Conqueror (1990).