Team 21st S.A.S. Regiment, on board Billy Butlin's control ship 'Wendorian'

The Dover Straight. Black and White photograph. One of the Radio control boats, possibly for the Billy Butlin 1956 swim International Cross Cross Channel races.

Steam Yacht built in 1903 by Hawthorne & Co of Leith as ‘Stephanotis’ for Charles Arkcoll. In 1919 sold to the Duke of Tarifa and used by the King of Spain as a Royal yacht.

1939 sold by executors of the Duke to Colonel R.G. Llewelyn and renamed Wendorian

1951 to 1961 loaned as a training ship to the King Edward VII Nautical College and hired to Billy Butlin each summer for use as his private yacht and escort ship during the Channel races

Scrapped in the Netherlands in 1961

From the Sam Rockett collection.