Dartmouth, Devon Businessman and television presenter, attended the Royal Naval College. Christopher Robin Milne, son of A. A. Milne, after whom the character Christopher Robin in the Winnie-the-Pooh books was named, used to own the Harbour Bookshop. The bookshop was reported as facing closure in September 2011 and the report was fulfilled. Theodore Veale, recipient of the Victoria Cross during the First World War. Dartmouth, Devon Dartmouth is a town and civil parish in the English county of Devon. It is a tourist destination set on the western bank of the estuary of the River Dart, which is a long narrow tidal
HMY Britannia (Royal Cutter Yacht) marked the end of big yacht racing in Europe, with the smaller and more affordable International Rule 12 Metre class gaining popularity. Four known examples of "Britannia"s racing flags are preserved, one presented by Philip Hunloke to the Royal Cornwall Yacht Club, in whose Regattas "Britannia" was often a competitor between 1894 and 1935, the second at the Royal Northern and Clyde Yacht Club at Rhu and the third at the Royal St. George Yacht Club, which held two regattas in Kingstown for the first season of the RYA linear rating rule in 1896. "Britannia"s skipper William G. Jameson had