Royal barge

A ceremonial barge is a ceremonial vessel that is used by high-ranking people, especially Monarch, for processions, boat parades, revues and other formal occasions for transport on the water.

With these launches a salon is usually set up at the rear end of the vessel, the possibly still highness characters, such as a crown or escutcheons are placed. Moving the barge by rowers in the front and middle part of the ship, a helmsman is usually elevated behind the salon on the ship's end.

Are known - some of which are still in use historic barges - the Thai, the English and the Swedish royal family.

The Royal Barge Procession in Thailand, are used in many ceremonial barges, will take place for more than 700 years. There is a museum, the National Museum of Royal Barges, for the royal barges.

The Queen Elizabeth II received the new royal barge " Gloriana " for the parade to her Diamond Jubilee in 2012 on the River Thames.

At the wedding of the Swedish crown princess Victoria of Sweden in 2010 a parade through Stockholm took place, in which the center piece with the magnificent royal barge " Vasaorden " led on the water around the island Kastellholmen.

Ceremonial barges in the picture

  • " Vasaorden " ( 1921) the Swedish royal family
  • " Anekchatbhuchongse " thäiländischen of the royal family
  • " Gloriana " (2012) the British Royal Family
  • Ceremonial barge Napoleon Bonaparte at the Musée national de la Marine
  • Ceremonial barge the Brazilian King John VI. in Rio de Janeiro in 1899
  • Ceremonial barge ( 1730) Major-General Joachim Daniel von Jauch to Warsaw
Rowing (sport) House of Bernadotte House of Windsor Argentina
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