Caroline Watson is about to pack her bags to sail the seven seas.
She is to join the 280 officers and men - and one woman - aboard HMS for the voyage of a lifetime.
Civil servant Caroline, from South Bank, York, was the winner of our fabulous competition for a flight to Gibraltar and five-day cruise aboard the warship back home to Portsmouth next month.
"Now it has finally sunk in, I can't wait," said Caroline, aged 37, who works in Ripon. " I am not a particularly good sailor - it will either be kill or cure."
Caroline's coupon was the first to be picked out of a bumper mailbag of many hundreds of entries.
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