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Part of Post 91 with some of it emboldened by me.Although I'd thought of keeping the battleships in service as training ships long before you suggested keeping Vanguard as the Royal Yacht, showing the flag, would have been part of Vanguard's "job description" as Cadet Training Ship and of the KGVs in the longer-lived Home Fleet Training Squadron. They'd be visiting ports around Europe many times a year, making longer-distance trips (e.g. to North America & the West Indies) once-or-twice a year and very-long-distance cruises (e.g. to the Far East & back via Suez & the Cape of Good Hope and World cruises) maybe every other year.And although I think HMY Britannia would still have been built, the Cadet Training Ship and/or the full Home Fleet Training Squadron would have been part of her escort on a regular basis.
Part of Post 91 with some of it emboldened by me.
Although I'd thought of keeping the battleships in service as training ships long before you suggested keeping Vanguard as the Royal Yacht, showing the flag, would have been part of Vanguard's "job description" as Cadet Training Ship and of the KGVs in the longer-lived Home Fleet Training Squadron. They'd be visiting ports around Europe many times a year, making longer-distance trips (e.g. to North America & the West Indies) once-or-twice a year and very-long-distance cruises (e.g. to the Far East & back via Suez & the Cape of Good Hope and World cruises) maybe every other year.
And although I think HMY Britannia would still have been built, the Cadet Training Ship and/or the full Home Fleet Training Squadron would have been part of her escort on a regular basis.
