Launching casket HMY 'Victoria & Albert' 1855, with gavel and chisel. A wooden casket, lined in red velvet, with a silver plaque on the lid and inlaid silver corners. It contains an ornamental gavel and chisel in zebra wood, silver-mounted. The blade of the chisel is decorated in scroll work. Inside the lid on paper is an ink drawing of the vessel at launching with jack, ensign, Admiralty Flag and Royal Standard and a list of principal dimensions. A white card in the box repeats the dimensions. The box has a lock and key. The plaque is inscribed: 'Victoria and Albert 1855'. Inside the lid in ink: 'Principal dimensions of Her Majesty's Steam Yacht Victoria and Albert, Length between the perpendiculars 300 ft, Length of keel for tonnage 275 ft 2 7/8", Breadth extreme 40 ft 3 1/4", Breadth for tonnage 40 ft 01/4", Breadth moulded 39 ft 01/4", Depth in hold 24ft 6", Burthen in tons No 234 75/94. Named and launched by Lady Milford at Her Majesty's Yard, Pembroke Dock the 16th Jany 1855.'
HMY 'Victoria & Albert' was a wooden, paddle steamer, design by Oliver W. Lang. She was last in active use as a royal yacht in 1901. She was broken up and burnt in 1904.