First royal visit to the Solomon Islands Protectorate, April 1959
1959
Britannia anchored off Gizo in April 1959 after a nine day voyage from Hong Kong, bringing Prince Philip on the first royal visit in the history of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate.
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