HMY Britannia, Royal yacht (Triang)
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A 1:1200 first-issue model of Her Majesty's Yacht HMY Britannia, part of the Tri-Ang Minic range produced between 1959 and 1964.
Triang Catalogue Number: M721
This Minic ships model is of the Royal Yacht Britannia which was built as replacement for the obsolete Victoria and Albert was placed in February 1952 with John Brown & Co Ltd. The Clydebank yard winning this contract largely because of its experience in building the prestigious Cunard "Queens", and RMS Caronia.
Britannia was designed as a dual function vessel - as a Royal Yacht in peacetime and as a hospital ship in times of hostility. Triang Minic also made a model of the Britannia in its wartime paintwork which can be found on the wiki here
The model has a white and black body and yellow funnel.
This model along with HMS Alamein and HMS Jutland make up the HMY Britannia Boxed set Catalogue Number: M894.
The ship was launched in 1953, commissioned in 1954, and decomissioned in 1997, and is now permanently docked in Edinburgh.
