A £250m scheme to create a successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia has been scrapped – with the Defense Secretary telling MPs the procurement of a new Royal Navy vessel is being prioritized instead.

The Royal Yacht Britannia was home to Her Majesty The Queen and the Royal Family for over 40 years, sailing over 1,000,000 miles around the world. Now berthed in Edinburgh, you can follow in the ...

But head a bit further down the road, past Leith and to the sea, and you’ll get to an equally popular tourist attraction: the Royal Yacht Britannia, a huge ship which was once the former royal ...

Once qualified he performed at sea and on land, across Europe, with carrier HMS Ocean and the former Royal Yacht Britannia. While serving at HMS Raleigh in the late 1950s, Mr Latham met his future ...