ĭuring fitting-out the yacht had significant extra weight added including concrete ballast and even a large traditional capstan so the Queen could be entertained by watching the sailors work. An electric hoist was available from the reception room to the royal apartments below, becoming the first ship in the world to be fitted with an elevator. A smoking room and reception room were also in the pavilion. On the after half of the bridge deck was a 180 ft (54.9 m) pavilion with an 85 ft (25.9 m) dining room. Three masts were rigged fore and aft with two funnels for the five decked vessel.
Coal capacity was sufficient for a steaming range of 2,000 miles (type not stated) at 14 kn (16 mph 26 km/h).
Refrigeration units were placed at the aft end of each engine room. Three dynamo sets provided electric light power. The engine cylinders with a stroke of 3 ft 3 in (1.0 m) were arranged so that two low pressure cylinders (53 in (134.6 cm)) bracketed the high pressure cylinder (26.5 in (67.3 cm)) placed forward of the intermediate pressure cylinder (44.5 in (113.0 cm)). The engines were in two side by side watertight compartments. The boilers were arranged in two watertight compartments one before the other with six boilers in the forward compartment and nine in the aft compartment. Belleville water-tube boilers provided steam powering two sets of vertical four cylinder triple expansion engines with combined 11,000 indicated horse power for eight hours and 7,500 indicated horse power on a continuous basis. The yacht's dimensions were 420 ft (128.0 m) length overall, 380 ft (115.8 m) length between perpendiculars, 50 ft (15.2 m) beam with a displacement of 5,700 tons and 18 ft (5.5 m) draft. Unlike yachts of other monarchs of the time the vessel was purely a yacht, not a combination yacht and warship. The vessel had an antiquated look when launched as the design was made to resemble the 1855 side wheel steamer Victoria and Albert. The total cost of the ship was £572,000, five-sevenths the cost of the battleship HMS Renown. She was completed in the summer 1901, seven months after the death of Queen Victoria. The yacht was launched at Pembroke Dockyard by the Duchess of York. Queen Victoria had lobbied Parliament for many years for a more modern yacht – HMY Victoria and Albert (1855) dated from 1855 – and winning this expenditure after pointing out that both the Russian Tsar and the German Kaiser had larger and more modern yachts than Great Britain. She served four sovereigns, and was decommissioned as royal yacht in 1939, served in the Second World War, and was broken up in 1954. This was the third yacht to be named Victoria and Albert and she was fitted with steam engines fired by Belleville water-tube boilers. The yacht was designed by the Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy Sir William White, launched in 1899 and ready for service in 1901. HMY Victoria and Albert was a royal yacht of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom.
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