Gloriana, moored in St katharine Docks
Settling down now, towards the end of this triumphant celebration
of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. A
lovely surprise for me, was to see
Gloriana moored here in the docks.
The million pound row barge,
painstakingly hand built, which took
more than four years by 60 craftsmen,
was certainly one of the main attractions in the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant
this weekend, leading more than 1,000
boats to honour the occasion. The first
royal barge to be built in 100 years,
Gloriana was powered on the day by
18 oarsmen, led by Britain's greatest
Olympian, Steve Redgrave. The
organisation here seems to have been a great success; with bigger crowds
than ever before, the management
team should be delighted (and probably
exhausted).
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