£1,000 - £1,500
ROYAL INTEREST - THE LAUNCH BOOK OF YARROW (SHIPBUILDERS) Ltd.
Recording the launch of ships built by the company, based at Scotstoun, Glasgow, starting with H.M.N.Z.S. Canterbury on 6th May 1970 and ending with H.M.S. Daring on 1st February 2006, containing extensive signatures of dignitaries present at the various ceremonies, including Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (on one page), Diana, Princess of Wales, Princess Margaret, Princess Anne, Princess Alexandra and Sophie, Countess of Wessex; alongside those of British and foreign diplomats and politicians, naval officers, Lords and Ladies Provost of Glasgow etc., the volume bound in blue leather with gilt-tooled Yarrow crest to upper cover
Provenance: gifted to the vendor by Sir Eric Grant Yarrow (1920-2018), Managing Director and later President of Yarrow PLC.
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