British Yachts and Yachtsmen – the Biographies

Was born in 1864 at Birkenhead, and educated at Hereford College. He entered his father’s business at the age of sixteen. In 1884 he went abroad, […]

Is a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron, and Commodore of the Royal Dart Yacht Club. He has taken a great interest in the latter club, […]

Is Secretary of the Royal Yacht Squadron. He was born in 1861, being a son of the late Captain Hamilton S. Pasley. He served in the […]

Was born at Edinburgh in 1850, and educated at Edinburgh Academy and the University. It was in 1871 with a 19-foot mainsail-and-jib-rigged boat that he started […]

Was born in 1855, and educated in London. He is owner of the fine s.y. Ladye Gipsey, and devotes a great deal of time to cruising in […]

Is one of the most prominent and popular of East Coast yachtsmen, being Rear-Commodore of the Royal Harwich Yacht Club, and Vice-Commodore of the Orwell Corinthian […]

Is the popular Vice-Commodore of the Royal Harwich Yacht Club, an office which he has held for the past thirty years. He has been a most […]

Was born in Glasgow in 1838, and educated at the High School and Glasgow College, where he studied classics and mathematics under Professor Blackburne, and engineering […]

Was born in 1846, and is the eldest son of the late Professor Theophilus Redwood, of Boyerton, Glamorganshire. For the past thirty-five years he has devoted […]