bobboat

Did you see that one of the original little ships was lost this month to fire?

The Lady Gay is not salvageable.

Morris, dont suppose you have any details about the owner of the gwen eagle?

2 hours ago, Le Prof said:

Hi @bobboat

Nice model, and still seems well cared for.

Do you know why your father hose this particular boat to build? I'm assuming it wasn't a kit, so he must have known it at some stage?

Best Regards,

Adrian

I'm afraid the original decision is lost in time. I was younger than 10 when he built it, although I was a keen "apprentice" helping him. But he was not a Naval person in any way. He lived in London but was called up to the RAF as an engineer and spent a while building airfields in Northampton.

 I believe he and a co worker each built the boat from plans. I found the plans from a company specialising in model boat plans about 10 years ago and was considering building a second when I stumbled upon this thread reference purely by chance.

 I had no background on the history so am very interested in any and all info.

 I still have the boat and it is in the condition as the picture and fully fitted out with modern R/cC

Hi, just found this site and the reference to the motor boat Gwen Eagle.

 I own a 1 / 12th scale model of this boat, built by my father (with my help) in 1959.

I knew very little of the boat, I believed it to have been built in 1949, imagine my amazement to see it on the beach in 19 40.

I now believe it was only built the year before.