3-053-737 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Prince of Wales at the lighthouse on the Holyhead breakwater, [north Wales], 1873. The future King Edward VII performed the official ceremony of opening the new harbour. 'Mr. Chichester Fortescue, President of the Board of Trade, with Mr. W. O. Stanley, M.P., High Sheriff of Anglesey, and Admiral Schomberg, the harbour master, bore the principal parts in meeting their Royal Highnesses and assisting the Prince of Wales to go through the programme...They entered a train of cars upon the line of railway along the lower terrace which runs the entire length of the breakwater, to the pierhead, where the Princes were conducted to the canopied platform or dais erected below the lighthouse. The President of the Board of Trade read a short account of the works, and his Royal Highness declared the breakwater completed. A salute was fired from a detachment of the Channel Fleet, which included the Hercules, Northumberland, Sultan, and Devastation. The Prince and the Duke of Edinburgh afterwards inspected the lighthouse, and, after signing their names in the visitors' book, re-embarked on board the Royal yacht. There was no speechmaking'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.