BRITANNIA'S END?
It is being said that Britannia will never race again, says a writer in "Blue Peter." Old age at last, seems to have overtaken the King's grand old racing yacht. Blow high or blow low, this season they could do nothing with her, and she ended her shortened season without a winning flag—a record unprecedented in all her forty-odd years of sport.
Recent alterations seem not to be to blame, and where the fault lies is difficult to say. Mr. Nicholson says that the only original material left in Britannia is her stem and stern-post; every other thing in the ship has been renewed once or more since she was launched in 1893. It may be, then, that finally the vessel's inherent quality has been evaporated, so to speak, leaving a composite vessel without—shall we say—her own soul. But these things are mysteries.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 21, 25 January 1936, Page 23
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