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RPA Foundation
A Royal visit –
January 1868
Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, chose her son, His
Royal Highness Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh to
make a goodwill tour around the world. HMS Galatea
was the ship commissioned, it set sail on 26 February
1867, arriving in Sydney Harbour on 21 January 1868.
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