green parrot
This vessel was one of three boats ordered on J Prowles Boat Yard
of Wroxhan; she was modified and finished as a barge for C-in-C
Home Fleet Sept 1956 on board HMS Maidstone. Her recorded
acceptance date is 01/10/1956, being issued to C-in-C Home Fleet
later that month. She was later used in this capacity onboard HMS
Tyne in February 1959. In 1960, approval was given to
transfer her to C-in-C Portsmouth (Naval Home Command),
subsequently being taken on to account as C-in-C’s barge. It was in
this guise that she was named ‘Green Parrot’.
While at Portsmouth she was modified for use
by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as her Royal Barge during state
visits to Portsmouth. The Green Parrot was taken out of service and
had been due to be scrapped when, in 1996, she was gifted to the
PNBPT by the Admiral Superintendent as flagship of its historic
boat collection. Since then she has undergone a programme of
maintenance and conservation and participated in the grand
Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant in June this year.
Come along and see Green Parrot at The PSP
Southampton Boat Show on the 20th and 21st
of September on berth M540
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