Another landing craft pen

[CraftyNick]

From this:



Comes this. Very pleased with the finish as there was a lot of rot in the oak frames.

 

[alpha1]

Well done very nice.

 

[pittswood]

Hi Nick, would there be any history/provenance to the landing craft. Nevertheless, a good looking pen.
Kelvin

 

[Garno]

That looks lovely

 

[flexi]

Love the colour in that, another very nice pen with great history

 

[Bill Mooney]

A lovely pen Nick.

 

[CraftyNick]

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.

 

[pittswood]

Fantastic history to a well deserved pen. Well done Nick.
Kelvin