Comments on: Uffa Fox’s great and lasting memorial - the Airborne Lifeboat http://intheboatshed.net/2008/01/30/uffa-foxs-greatest-memorial-the-airborne-lifeboat/ A weblog about great boats, boatbuilding and restoration. And sheds, of course! Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:59:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Gavin Atkin http://intheboatshed.net/2008/01/30/uffa-foxs-greatest-memorial-the-airborne-lifeboat/#comment-11479 Gavin Atkin Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:00:08 +0000 http://intheboatshed.net/2008/01/30/uffa-foxs-greatest-memorial-the-airborne-lifeboat/#comment-11479 The Wikimedia Commons has the small one above, but if you use it you must include a credit for the source. Otherwise, I'd try the museums, perhaps starting with the boat museum at Cowes on the Isle of Wight. Gavin The Wikimedia Commons has the small one above, but if you use it you must include a credit for the source.

Otherwise, I’d try the museums, perhaps starting with the boat museum at Cowes on the Isle of Wight.

Gavin

]]> By: Keith White http://intheboatshed.net/2008/01/30/uffa-foxs-greatest-memorial-the-airborne-lifeboat/#comment-11456 Keith White Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:12:03 +0000 http://intheboatshed.net/2008/01/30/uffa-foxs-greatest-memorial-the-airborne-lifeboat/#comment-11456 Hello, I'm a Brit living in the US. I am preparing a DVD, mostly still images, of my local boatyard. One segment will describe an elderly man who lived in the yard in one of these Uffa Fox airborne air sea rescue boats. The boat was alleged to have been sailed here from England on two occasions. I would like to have a digital image of one of the boats to include in my DVD. If you have one, or know where I could get one, would you email me a copy, or give me directions to a source? Thank you Keith White Hello,
I’m a Brit living in the US. I am preparing a DVD, mostly still images, of my local boatyard. One segment will describe an elderly man who lived in the yard in one of these Uffa Fox airborne air sea rescue boats. The boat was alleged to have been sailed here from England on two occasions.
I would like to have a digital image of one of the boats to include in my DVD. If you have one, or know where I could get one, would you email me a copy, or give me directions to a source?

Thank you
Keith White

]]> By: jeff cole http://intheboatshed.net/2008/01/30/uffa-foxs-greatest-memorial-the-airborne-lifeboat/#comment-10213 jeff cole Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:10:57 +0000 http://intheboatshed.net/2008/01/30/uffa-foxs-greatest-memorial-the-airborne-lifeboat/#comment-10213 My wife's uncle was in Air-sea Rescue after damaging his ears in fighters in WW2. I remember him talking about trials in the Thames estuary but at the time Uffa's name didn't come up. In 1956, at the Melbourne Olympics, as a Sea Scout, I believe I was introduced to him on the officials boat, the detroyer Warramunga. I was only 13 and 'working' at the Olympics as a message runner before portable radio's and mobiles. My wife’s uncle was in Air-sea Rescue after damaging his ears in fighters in WW2. I remember him talking about trials in the Thames estuary but at the time Uffa’s name didn’t come up. In 1956, at the Melbourne Olympics, as a Sea Scout, I believe I was introduced to him on the officials boat, the detroyer Warramunga. I was only 13 and ‘working’ at the Olympics as a message runner before portable radio’s and mobiles.

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