In 1919, the Thames Peace Pageant celebrated the efforts of English mariners and merchant seamen in the First World War. The five-mile procession from London Bridge to Chelsea, combining royal and civic pageantry, attracted enormous crowds to the river banks, bridges and the Thames itself. The Royal Barge, called the Queen’s Shallop, made her final voyage as part of this pageant. She was the last of the old state barges. The Queen’s Shallop took centre stage, closely followed by the Lords of the Admiralty in a ten-oared cutter, each accompanied by a steamboat. A green steam barge carried the Lord Mayor, following which were a dozen twelve-oared Navy cutters, four Navy picket boats with guns, an armed motor launch and a barge displaying guns used in the Great War. The main body of the procession featured flagged and decorated craft from maritime institutions and the British Merchant Service. Décor consisted of bunting and 50 streamers, decking the bridges, ships, wharves, cranes and scaffolding. Choirs sang sea songs on the Embankment and bands played along the bank and at the piers where King George V entered and disembarked the royal barge. At Cadogan Pier the King disembarked to survey the pageant and receive the salute. Above the saluting point the procession turned and returned eastward.