ROYAL YACHT
AN INTERESTING CAREER. The royal yacht Victoria and Albert, which is to be scrapped and replaced by a modern vessel, has had an interesting career. During her forty years she has flown the standard of four sovereigns. A three-masted vessel of 4700 tons, she has three coins at the base of each mast, the coinlayers having been Queen Victoria, King Edward the Seventh, and King George the Fifth. The Queen and King Edward deposited a five-shilling piece, a sovereign, and a penny, but for some reason King George made his penny a half-crown. (Perhaps he had not a penny in his pocket!) The Victoria and Albert is a coalburning vessel, now antiquated and out of date. She is uneconomical, re-, quiring a large crew to run her. Designs for her successoi- will shortly be submitted by leading yacht designers, and on these the ultimate plan of the new royal yacht will be based.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1939, Page 7
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155ROYAL YACHT Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1939, Page 7
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