• Thanks for visiting The Penturners Forum today.

    There are many features and resources that currently you are unable to see or access, either because you're not yet registered, or if you're already registered, because you're not logged in.

    To gain full access to the forum, please log in or register now. Registration is completely free, it only takes a few seconds, and you can join our well established community of like-minded pen makers.

Another landing craft pen

CraftyNick

Full Member
Joined
Jul 6, 2021
Posts
153
Location
Devon UK
First Name
Nick
Hi Nick, would there be any history/provenance to the landing craft. Nevertheless, a good looking pen.
Kelvin

Hi Kelvin.
I am making three fountain pens from old timbers of Foxtrot Eight for the museum in Portsmouth. The landing craft helped Royal Marines liberate the Falklands and is now enjoying a fresh lease of life – running tourists around Portsmouth Harbour.

Foxtrot Eight was one of four smaller landing craft used by Portsmouth-based assault ship HMS Fearless to ferry commandos and their equipment ashore at San Carlos in May 1982.

After long and fruitful service, Fearless was broken up a decade ago – but two of her landing craft were saved as museum pieces.

One – Foxtrot Seven, used in the evacuation of crew of stricken frigate HMS Antelope – sits outside the Royal Marines Museum in Eastney as a monument to landing craft crew.

Foxtrot Eight was donated to the historic dockyard where she could be seen floating in the Mast Pond – between Action Stations and Boathouse No.4.

With the latter building brought back to life as a centre for small boat building thanks to £6m of investment, the facilities exist to bring F8 back to life.

This is her now.
0032A074-0121-4FDD-BAC6-F258095BCC21.jpg
 
Warning! This thread has not had any replies for over a year. You are welcome to post a reply here, but it might be better to start a new thread (and maybe include a link to this one if you need to).
Top