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By BL. HADFIHaDtbnded III weather as Y l the travels oi “lﬁh Royall!

acrcmthe oeeumuulasaleoouru has been steered through the many hanrda u! the see; but. on occasion. storm and other exciting incidents have punctuated otherwise smooth proceedings. From the decks of a ahl carrying British Royalty even the Phantom Ship has been seen.

The sea is no respecter of per- sons. When princes cross the oceans they are liable to meet ad- venture and suffer the buffets oi the waves as any man oi lesser clay; every poslble arrangement may have been made for their com- fort and to ensure their safety. but the sea is untanieable, and its haz- ards must be risked.

On the whole, “King's Weather" nas iavoured those British princes and princesses who have had occa- aion to cross the sea. ard with the exception oi that unfortunate son oi’ Henry I, whose ship, named White, was lost upon the Casquets. no member oi any ‘British Royal ‘amlly has lost his life at sea.

Many voyages, a5 icr instance. that oi the Prince and Princess 0i’ Wales, afterwards King George V and Queen Mary. in the liner Op- iiir to Australia, have been attend- ed by consistently fine weather, and lave ior a day or two oi bois- terous behaviour on the part oi‘ wind and sea. bath Repulse and Renown. our latter day “Royal yachts". have been lucky in their weather.

Not. only the size and compara- tive stability oi modern ships makes ior the comfort oi’ royal travellers. but modem harbours. qusys. steam and motor pinnances malce landings easier and more dig- niiied. When CharlPs II came back at the Restoration. Dover Har- bour was siited up through neglect and he had to be rowed ashore in I small boat from some distance.

having rather a severe bucketirlg en route and landing drenched to th min

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The outward voyage oi the Prince oi Wales, afterwards Ed- ward VTI, to Canada in 1860 was iree from incident though it took some three weeks. but tile return was a different story. The Prince had crossed into the United States at Detroit. Only one_B_ritish Royal prince. the future W"li£l.m IV, had been in the United States before, and there were doubts about the reception he would receive. How- ever. "the slender, graceful Prince". as an American newspaper d95- cribcd him, won all hearts and be- came so popular that. as he was leaving a ball at Boston just be- fore his departure, a young man in the crowd cried out. “Come back and run for President".

The tour through WaShiHKl/Jh. New York and Boston had been so successful and everything had 50118 oif so smoothly, that it was most unkind oi the west-tier to turn surly at. the moment of the Prince's de- parture. The Prince oi Wales had hardly set foot 0n his ship. H.M.S. Hero, at Portland, Maine, than the wind began to rise; the ship and her escort beat out to sea in the teeth oi a gale.

Durin! the whole oi the passage the weather was foul. and the Prince was subjected to four weeks oi continual tossing in quarters not oi the mcst comlortable. HMS. Hero was a square-rigged line-ci- battleship almost indistinguishable from those that fought at Trafal- ‘gar. save for the smoke-stack amid- shins.

King Edward VTPs sons, Prince George and the Duke oi’ Clarence. went to sea as young men, and it was while they were serving as cadets in the Bacchante in i881 that they had a most remarkablci experience The Duke has (iescrihed l it in the journal which he and his l brother kept and was published| under the title oi’ “The Cruise oi

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Al; 6 run. the “Flying Dutchman" crossed our bows. A strange red light, as of s phantom ship all a- low, ll". the midst oi which light

e mast, spars and sails oi a brig two hulrdred yard atrium, s out in strong relief as she came up . . . . ..'1‘hirteen persons altogether saw r, but whether; it was “Van Diemen" or the "Flying Dutchman" or who else. must remain unknown . . . . ..At 10.4.5 am. the ordinary seaman who had this morning re- ported the “Flylng Dutchman" tell from the iore-tomnast. cross-trees and was smashed to atoms".

Many people of Royal blood at one time or another claimed to lave seen ghost-S, but this is probably the only instance oi a British Royal Prince seeing and recording in matter-oi-fact words. the advenft of that time-honoured spectre oi the sea. the Phantom Ship.

Prince Albert was exceedingly unfortunate in his weather when he crossed to Dover 0n February 8. i840. to marry Queen Victoria. The ship was a small peddle- steamer and encountering a gale in a narrow sea notorious for its ill-treatment oi voyager-s, made such bad weather of it that the Prince was very seasick. At the same time waves came aboard and drenched his baggage. with the re. sult that when the Prince reached land he had no dry clothes to change into. It is said that Queen

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Victoria was much annoyed at the delay in the functions arranged for that evening, caused by the Prince's having ta wait while his clothes were sorted out and made iit to wear.

Pcrhap one of the worst Chan- nel crossings ever made by Royal- ty was that oi’ the future Queen Charlotte when, having been wooed by proxy. she came over to marry GQOTSE 111. The sage was from Elbe t0 Hﬂfwlch. ut so stormy was the weather that the Royal yacht and her escorting vessels

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When the Duke oi’ York, now H. M. the King, went to Australia t0 open the Federal Parliament in the new capital at Canberra in 1M4. he followed the practice, which has latterly been adopted, of travelling in a battle-cruiser. For this purpose Renown, of 32.000 tons and a speed of 30 knots. was chosen. She had previously served the Prince of Wales as "Royal yacht" on oificial

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During the voyage home a most thrilling lncident- occurred. A lire broke out in the oil-bunkers when the ship was about a thousand miles from land. It might easily have turned into a disaster had it not been for the superhuman way the engineroom staii and ratings worked to prevent the fire reach- ing the magazines. The Duke and Duchess set an example by their calmness, and the Duke was down as nearas possible to the seat oi the the, ready to help at moment's notice.

When leaving New Zealand‘ on that tour the wind came up so quickly that Renown could only be zipprouclicd by means oi a tug. On her reeling decks the Duke and his staff made their \va towards Renown, dimly discernibe i.n the squalls oi’ rain.

The tug went to leeward oi the cruiser but was so livel that the passengers had to go ard the larger ship one by one, making a. leap from the bulwarks oi the tug to the quarter-deck as the two came level. The Duke crossed nim- bly and “made an excellent land- ing", being caught in the arms of two stalwart ratings. The Duchess had not, gone ashore on that oc- casion.

As contrast to fire and the risk of a ducking were one or two amusing incl ents. The programme

Duchess went ashore and the Standard was lowered, the “Stlll" was to be sounded, whereupon everybody would come to a. halt and even the engines of the launch onveying the Royal couple ashore were to stop.

When landing in Auckland, to the horror of sticklers for naval etiquette, the Royal launch became the centre of a. milling mass oi’ small boats during the “Stiil". Un- troubled by Navy tradition, thous- ands of visitors anxious to catch their first glimpse oi the Dulce and Duchess, crowded round in every ype of boat, from motor launches o "eightsi At the same time the Royal salute was being fired, and as it took some minutes to fire the Duke and Duchess had to stand. the iccus oi all eyes, in the centre oi a mass oi swaying crait. Another incident which gave great amusement to the Duke took place when leaving Gibraltar. ‘The printed programme oi events in- cluded this item:

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Not so amusing was the storm which blew up when four days out oi Melbourne on the return pas- age. This was one oi the worst hurricanes ever experienced 1n the Australian Blight; e. ‘place notori- om for storms. For twenty-iour hours the ship labJured throu h enormous seas at reduced sp .

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