The National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the home of time in the UK, took to the river Thames for a historic event in partnership with Royal Museums Greenwich and the Jubilant Trust on the 9th of September and the NPL has produced a film to showcase this important event: NPL presented the Royal Museums Greenwich with…
The Jubilant Trust celebrated its 21st birthday on Saturday with Royal Shallop Jubilant leading a 15-strong flotilla down the River Thames from Isleworth to Greenwich’s Royal Observatory carrying an “atomic” clock, which ticks more than 400 million million times a second. Here’s a selection of photos from the event: The Strontium ion clock is loaded…
An “atomic” clock, which ticks more than 400 million million times a second, was escorted on Saturday 30km down river from Isleworth to Greenwich by a 15-strong flotilla, led by Royal Shallop Jubilant. Gifted by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington, to the Royal Observatory Greenwich to mark the organisation’s leadership in global time-telling,…
On the 14th of September 2002, we launched “Jubilant” at Isleworth with the support of the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington. The event was “The Celebration of Time”, a rowing procession along the Thames which took place after the naming ceremony. In the procession, we carried on board “Jubilant” an atomic Caesium clock to be…
During the past three seasons, there has not been as much activity as we would have liked, but the need for Jubilant’s upkeep has not been diminished. Riding out the summer months on her mooring off the Thames Path at Richmond in itself requires our regular attention, and it has been a constant reminder that…
2022 is the Jubilant Trust’s 20th Birthday, and twenty years on from being presented to the late Queen Elizabeth II, we look back at how the Trust began… In June 2002, the “Picnic at The Park” in Bushy Park took place and involved more than 40,000 members of the public and featured numerous stalls, display…
