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BRITANNIA
Royal Sailing Yacht
The most
successful racing sailboat of all time
Royal
yacht
Britannia was built for the Queen Victoria's
son Edward, Prince of Wales, successor to the
throne. She
was launched on 20 April 1893 and joined
a fleet of first class cutters that was growing fast as
others followed the royal lead. In a highly competitive
fleet, sailboat Britannia soon
set about achieving the race results which would
eventually establish her as the most successful racing
yacht of all time.
By the end of her first year's racing,
the
sailboat Britannia had
scored thirty-three wins from forty-three starts. In her
second season, she won all seven races for the first
class yachts on the French
Riviera,
and then beat the 1893 America's Cup defender Vigilant.
In 1895 she won 38 of 50 regattas. It is the record which no
other yacht in history ever able to repeat.
In 1897,
Britannia beat the yacht Meteor of the Chancellor of Germany
and won the Challenger Cup.
In 1921, the new owner,
King George V, refitted
Britannia out
for racing, and for the first few seasons replicated the
stunning earlier successes. In 1931,
Britannia was
converted to the J class with a bermuda rig.
After George V’s death in 1936,
sailboat
Britannia was towed
out into the English Channel and sunk in deep water off
the Isle of Wight, in accordance with his wishes.
Britannia's
king’s chair, tiller, anchor chain, and clock
are preserved in the Sir Max Aitken Museum in Cowes High
Street. The remains of her spinnaker boom are at Carisbrooke
Castle. The spinnaker boom was given
for use as a flag pole on the keep.
We build this
primarily wood
sailboat
Britannia
model the following sizes:
40" long x 50" tall x 6.5" wide.
$3,960
Shipping and insurance in the contiguous US
included. Other
places: $600 flat rate.
30" long
x 37" tall x 6" wide. $3,420
Shipping and insurance in the contiguous US
included. Other
places:
$450 flat rate.
Models are built per commission only.
We require only a
small deposit to start
$900  The
remaining balance won't be due until the model is
completed,
in about five months.
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For the
1931 refitted J-yacht Britannia, visit this
page. |
For the Britannia royal yacht, visit this
page.
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Want a beautiful
model of your favorite sailboat? Just let us know
more about it here:
Commissioning.
If premium quality and proud display are
important to you, click on this
link
to learn more about boat models.
If you are looking for
the royal yacht
HMY BRITANNIA model, it is located here:
https://www.modelshipmaster.com/products/ocean_liners/britannia%20royal%20yacht.htm
Learn more about the
Britannia yacht here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMY_Britannia_(Royal_Cutter_Yacht)
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