BRITANNIA SUCCESSOR WILL RULE THE WAVES.Byline: The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times When the royal yacht A Royal Yacht is a ship used by a monarch or a royal family. Most of them are financed by the government of the country of which the monarch is head. The Royal Yacht is most often manned by personnel from the navy and used by the monarch and his/her family on both private and Britannia sailed from Plymouth on Monday on a final Far East tour before its decommissioning Decommissioning is a general term for a formal process to remove something from operational status. Some specific instances include:
But, unexpectedly, the government said Wednesday that a new $100 million ship will be built to replace it and will enter service in 2002 in time for the queen's golden jubilee. The Britannia cost 2,098,000 pounds to build in 1953, equivalent to $52.5 million today. Wednesday's announcement appeared to put an end to to destroy. - Fuller. See also: End a lengthy debate in which detractors argued that the vessel was an anachronism a·nach·ro·nism n. 1. The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order. 2. . Lately the queen has used it only once a year, for a ritual cruise around the Western Isles off Scotland; for more extended travel, she goes by air. But in its four decades of service, the 5,769-ton, 412-foot Britannia has logged more than a million miles, mostly as a floating platform for business diplomacy. The government credits Britannia with having provided British businessmen with an alluring venue for meeting their counterparts abroad and thereby having secured more than $3 billion worth of trade for Britain in the past decade. |
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