Mada previously Fleury II
Annual Commemorative Cruise incorporating the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant - 2012
The 2012 Commemorative Cruise will be held in London, in King George V Dock to coincide with the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant. The Pageant to be held at high water on the afternoon of Sunday 3 June 2012 and the event will see up to a thousand boats muster on the River Thames in preparation for Her Majesty The Queen to lead the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant. The Pageant celebrates Her Majesty's sixty years of service by magnificently bringing the Thames to life.
Little Ships will assemble in Barnes reach prior to the event.
Mada making her last trip to Dunkirk under the command of Trevor Denham arrives in Basin du Commerce
Fleury II now Mada
When the Admiralty's Requisitioning Officer called at E.F. Elkins' boatyard at Christchurch in Hampshire, a wave of concern about his intentions swept over the owners of boats lying there. To some, their boat is their most precious possession, to others it is their living and no-one knew what he was looking for and the purpose for which the boats were wanted.
