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    Jul 16, 2021 3 minutes

    At the end of May, Boris Johnson proclaimed a fresh interest in commissioning a new royal yacht. Why, you might ask, do we need a new one when the iconic Britannia, now tethered as a museum piece at Leith, looks good enough to be given a fresh lease of life for moderately less than a new build?

    It’s been done before. Mark Getty had the 91-year-old classic 262ft (80m) motor yacht , built at the Krupp shipyard back

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