Princess jaunty
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) ’ COWES, Aug. 4. Princess Anne', wearing a ' brown Stetson hat with two trailing silver ribbons, I looked as jaunty as any sailor when she arrived at East Cowes yacht yard yesterday to name the first full square-rigger sailing ship built to fly the British flag since 1906. The ship, the Royalist, will be used to train British sea cadets. The ceremony was ’ Princess Anne’s first public engagement since her illness. She inspected a guard of honour of sea cadets after being piped on board' the ship. In a simple and short ceremony, Princess Anne unveiled a plaque and then said: “May good fortune attend the ship and all who sail in her.” While she was touring the brig, in which the accommodation is deliberately spartan and not designed for comfort, the young cadets manned the yards ready to give her a rousing send-off. The Royalist is the first full square-rigger to be built to fly the British flag since 1906. (Square rig has been chosen not for any romantic reason but to provide the best medium for seamanship training for the crew of boys, most of whom will be aged between 13 and 15.)
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32677, 5 August 1971, Page 6
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