During The Gloriana Achievers’ Day 2016 80 students from two East London Academies were taught to row in Skerries at Royal Docks Adventure. This was followed by a time trial and side by side races to find the overall winning Academy who were awarded the ‘Achievers Blade’ and which two crews would then have the […]

Royal barge Gloriana led a flotilla of boats down the River Thames in London to mark the Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations on Saturday 11th June 2016. A crew of able-bodied and adaptive rowers with disabilities manned the vessel, with guests including Lord Sterling and Sir Steven Redgrave on-board. The small-boat flotilla comprised vessels from every […]

As soon as I saw QRB Gloriana I wanted to build a model of her so, following some research on Google, I contacted the designer, Stuart Roy, who was able to provide me with the plans. I then did some maths and adjusted the plans to 1–32 scale and began to build. The model is […]