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Technical paper

HER MAJESTY’S YACHT BRITANNIA

By Sir Victor Shepheard, K.C.B., R.C.N.C.

(Vice-President)

This information is reproduced with the kind permission of The Royal Institution of Naval Architects www.rina.org.uk

This paper was written by Sir Victor Shepheard, Director of Naval Construction and presented to the Institution of Naval Architects in London on April 7, 1954

The issue of this copy of the paper is on the express understanding that no publication, either of the whole or in abstract will be made until after the paper has been read at the Meetings of the INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS in London on April 7, 1954.

The Institution is not, as a body, responsible for the statements made or the opinions expressed by individual authors or speakers.

Written Contributions to the Discussion should reach the secretary I.N.A. by May 15, 1954.

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