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hey may be standard issue among modern superyacht crews, but you would have been hard-pressed to find a polo shirt or pair of shorts among the crew of this particular vessel. Pictured here in South Africa shortly was run by Royal Navy officers (always freshly starched), as well as a division of the Royal Marines and a Royal Marines band who accompanied the yacht on official trips – taking pomp and circumstance with them.

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