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ROYAL STANDARD FLOATS FROM WARSHIP rily A>r Mail—Own Correspondent] LONDON, 23rd June. At the Silver Jubilee review, when King George V. led the Home Fleet out for sea exercises, he did so aboard the royal yacht Victoria and Albert. King George VI. improved on this, when the fleet steamed out from Weymouth Bay this week, by leading the way on the bridge deck of H.M.S. Nelson, the flagship. It must be a long time since the
Royal Standard of England, the most gorgeous ensign of all, floated from a | British warship. When King Edward VII reviewed the fleet off Spithead, he did not go aboard a battleship, but watched the pageant from the royal yacht. Our present Kink, of course, has intimate naval associations, though his sea career was not really so prolonged as his father's. He is sufficiently up on the technical side, however, to be an appreciative and critical student of all the Home Fleet bad to show him. Though things have developed a good deal technically since he was in the line at Jutland. In order to practise the gunnery exercises, the Nelson led the armada some distance out to sea.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 16 July 1938, Page 7
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