Prince pops in to Pompey
01 Jan 2007
His Royal Highness The Duke of York visited the headquarters of McMurdo in Portsmouth just before Christmas.
HRH and Robert Hill discuss the points of product assembly with Ken Churcher and Neil Galbraith
Spending over an hour at the site, the Duke was shown the latest life saving equipment and was introduced to staff in the factory and design offices.
The walk about took him through the assembly areas where the SmartFind EPIRBs and the FastFind personal locator beacons are produced and he also received a demonstration of the Man Over Board (MOB) Guardian, a joint initiative with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
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