SGM and talk about Royal Yachts

Tue, Dec 1st 2020 at 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

SGM for election of club officers for 2021-22 and approval of Accounts.      
Speaker Capt. Robert Stopford RN Speaker Host: Antony Warren


Robert Stopford had a varied career in the Royal Navy, including a two-year spell on HM Yacht Britannia in "Supply Charge". His talk will be an illustrated history of British Royal Yachts, with brief insights into life on board Britannia in the 1970s.

On retirement he was Bursar of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge for ten years. He now keeps busy helping Ely Cathedral raise funds and present choral concerts, and is deeply involved with The Arts Society of Cambridge (previously NADFAS)

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