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¾ Starboard bow view of R.Y. BRITANNIA. Watermans Boat taking line also in image.

The Royal Yacht Britannia arriving at Cardiff in the summer of 1969, bringing Prince Charles to Wales in the year of his investiture. This 3,990 ton vessel was built on the Clyde in 1953 and is the most recent in a long line of royal yachts dating back to the reign of Charles II. The Britannia can be converted to a naval hospital ship should the need arise, but she has never been used for this purpose.

Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993.

Royal Yacht. Built 1953 by John Brown & Co Ltd., Clydebank, and commissioned January 1954. She was crewed by volunteers of the Royal Navy, supplemented by a platoon of Royal Marines when members of the Royal Family were on board. She was decommissioned in December 1997, and is currently on public display, permanently moored at Edinburgh’s Ocean Terminal.