Dry Run of the Thames Jubilee Pageant – what seems to be the Jubilee spectacular the Royal Navy will play a key part in the protection the Queen’s Royal Barge at the Diamond Jubilee Thames Pageant where sailors and Royal Marines took to a plethora of small boats and raiding craft to flank a pleasure cruiser which was standing in for the boat which H.M.The Queen will use for the pageant on the Thames.
 

 

The River Dart (Devon) stood in the Thames when two (2) picket boats and a flotilla of RIBs and ORCs mustered around a stand “Royal Barge” (the local pleasure cruiser DART EXPLORER).      Ten (10) small craft will fly the White Ensign, forming a Royal Squadron to escort H.M.The Queen from Albert Bridge in Chelsea to Tower Bridge.      The 1st Patrol Boat Squadron, based in Portsmouth has been given the task of overall responsibility for the training required.     The Royal Squadron will form around the Royal Family, being carried on the SPIRIT of CHARTWELL, the Royal Barge on the day with a Band of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines also taken part in the Thames Pageant being on one of the music herald barges which will play supporting music for the waterborne parade.