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NEW YORK, Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – World Yacht announces their partnership with the 9/11 Memorial to offer a weekly Freedom Lunch Cruise. The cruise, which will sail every Saturday, April through …

Documents show campaign to fund a diamond jubilee replacement for royal yacht can be traced to the mid-90s It is a project for which the outpouring of support seems to have come from nowhere. In the past week, calls for a new royal yacht to be commissioned in the Queen's diamond jubilee year have been made with enthusiasm by politicians, business leaders and newspapers. But on closer scrutiny it …

The Yacht Club has hosted countless regional and national acts since its opening in 2002, and many local bands call it home. The basement club, 13 S. Linn St., will celebrate nine years of live music on Saturday with an anniversary party.

The government has said it will consider plans for a privately-funded new royal yacht for Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee, but sank suggestions taxpayers could foot the bill.

A new royal yacht, built as a privately-funded project, is being actively considered by the prime minister, Downing Street says.

Britain's government said it would consider plans for a privately-funded new royal yacht for Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee, but sank suggestions taxpayers could foot the bill.

Reports that a British government official proposed that the royal yacht for Queen Elizabeth be funded with public money has stirred up anger in a time of austerity.

The British royal family has a long history with the sea. Queen Elizabeth II's much beloved Royal Yacht Britannia carried members of the monarchy on almost 1000 official voyages over 44 years, from her launch in 1953 to her decommissioning in 1997.

What do you get for a monarch who has almost everything? Not, apparently, a new yacht, at least not one paid for with taxpayer funds.

A leaked copy of a letter written by Britain’s education minister suggested that a new yacht would be a fitting way for the nation to mark the queen’s 60th anniversary on the throne.