The Royal Yacht Britannia

The Royal Yacht Britannia is distinguished by its remarkably smooth, riveted hull and its towering presence at the Leith docks in Edinburgh. Launched in nineteen fifty-three from the John Brown and Company shipyard in Clydebank, this vessel served the British Royal Family for forty-four years. It is the last in a line of eighty-three royal yachts dating back to sixteen sixty, and it remains the only one of them to have survived, as others were traditionally scuttled.