Short trip gives Britannia a spot of bother

Friday 06 January 2012 23:16 GMT

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The Royal Yacht Britannia steamed 1,087,623 miles and weathered almost every sea condition imaginable during the 44 years the Queen sailed in her. But she was almost undone yesterday on a journey just a few hundred yards long.

The vessel, now a tourist attraction in Port of Leith, Edinburgh, began taking on water and listing as she was unmoored ready to travel to a neighbouring dry dock for painting. Fire crews were called to pump the water out before she could be taken in tow by a tug to the Imperial Dry Dock.

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