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I’m not sure how much time Queen Lizzy has for yachting when she’s busy tapping the clock and looking expectantly at Kate Middleton’s stomach, but the Daily Mail has launched a campaign to deliver a new “mega-yacht” to the Royal Family before the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee next June. This might be one of the Mail’s most fantastical articles ever.
They’ve dubbed the mega-yacht the “FSP21″ — that’s Future Ship Project 21st Century — and claim that the taxpayer won’t have to cough up a penny, with the bulk of the £80 million being donated by private investors. Apparently several companies and private individuals have already pledged money for the construction — or could that be the Mail drumming up a bit interested around their stunt?
Trailing just behind yachts from Roman Abramovich and Dubai’s ruler, blueprints for the imaginarily-mammoth FSP21 have been drawn up, showing a helipad, and the ability to fit a mini-submarine, sailboat, two buses (?!) and bikes onboard. It’ll certainly be just the ticket for Prince Philip to get his legs out on.
And with that, I think I’ve lost my appetite. [Daily Mail via JamesList via Luxury Launches]
that’s one plush boat! 100 bikes on board? I can just picture old Queeny Bags in full DH race gear (wearing the latest Royal kit natch!) doing 360 no handers off the back of the boat
They forgot to show the compartment were the illegal immigrants will hide…. Daily Mail you disappoint me!
They also forgot to mention the Express’ campaign to have the boat named “The Princess Diana – Queen of Hearts”
Ooh …classy
I must express my concern for the number of articles here sourced from the Daily Mail (or as it was called on Radio 4 last week “the version of the Metro they have the nerve to charge for”). Not that there is much better journalism to be found elsewhere in the British press.
I’m not going to stop sourcing stories from the Daily Mail, when they’re as “good” as this. It’s such a guilty pleasure.
I’m glad they labelled the anchor, otherwise you know, there could have been a bit of confusion there
I would’ve had to write a stern letter to the Mail if they’d forgotten that one…
*generic boat pun #76 – Not Found*
The whale it may or may not be conjoined to is giving me echoes of the UK spaceship from Doctor Who..
The whale is there for Prince Philip to shoot at.
Here we go again!
I can’t help but feel underwhelmed. We design some of the best super yachts in the world in the UK (http://www.pendennis.com/) and yet the Daily Fail would try to get us excited by something that looks like a “tribute” from the Franklin Mint. I hope any project like this was non-taxpayer funded as the article states. I seem to recall Liz getting all weepy over the last sailing of the hospital ship Britannia only to hear that the richest woman in Europe(?) wasn’t prepared to pay for a replacement but expected us to buy her one as a gift. Perhaps this design would serve her right
I love the Daily Mail, it’s so screamingly pointless…
I’m guessing those cadet/student cabins are there purely because someone on the ‘design’ team cried out “Oh Lord! Won’t somebody think of the children!?”
(Also, putting the Head of State cabin directly below the helipad? That seems…restful.)
Not to mention safe
Because that’s what the descendent of dictators and murderers (aka the Queen) is missing – a mega-yacht.
Look like The Mail have been reading too many old Thunderbirds comics…
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