Other lives: Sailor who served on the royal yacht then helped to preserve it as a tourist attraction
My friend David Hicken, who has died aged 76, was for many years a crew member of the royal yacht Britannia, which was in service from 1954 until 1997 and travelled more than a million nautical miles around the globe. After the yacht retired from royal service it was renovated, with David’s help and expertise, and is now permanently moored as a tourist attraction in Leith, Edinburgh.
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