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RCYC Burgee - Link to the early History of the Club (1871-1923)
 RCYC Burgee
Mead & West Family History by Cecil Haarlem Mead
(also the author of
RCYC History 1871-1949 )
Lloyds Emblem - from Lloyds Register of Yachts (1961)
(1951 - 1977 etc)



Corke, George A.,
My Cornish connection and Notes on Ocean Towage
Notes and many photographs courtesy of Ken & Jenny Corke


 Dear, Ian: The Great Days of Yachting from the KIRK Collection
B .T. Batsford Ltd., London W1. (1988)  ISBN 0 7134 57538  (128 p.)
 Photographs by Wm. U. Kirk (1844-1928) & Son (Edgar, died 1949), West & Son, Southsea, and, Beken of Cowes
George Corke inherited from Capt. J. T. Dixon, several prints by the above, here replicated courtesy of Ken & Jenny Corke


 Field, Leslie,  author of Hydroplane History
A website devoted to motor boat racing history from whom I have 'cribbed' cuttings directly relating to Capt. R.T. Dixon,
mostly transcribed from British publications by Greg Calkins, who is appropriately credited on Leslie's site.

Dixon, Capt. R.T.  
 Logbooks of the Lady Maud and Sea Crest from 1922-1939
Including his 6 metre and Sunbeam races (see Jasmine)
Courtesy of Ken & Jenny Corke

 Gay, Susan, Old Falmouth
Published by Headley Brothers, London (1903)

 Kelly's  Directory of Cornwall 1893

 Lake's GUIDE to FALMOUTH, Penryn, St. Mawes & Neighbourhood (1869)
Lake's series of handy Guide Books, PRICE TWOPENCE
Truro: W. Lake Boscawen Street, and at all Booksellers & Railway Bookstalls

Lloyds Register of Yachts, 1947, 1961, 1968,  1977,

 Lloyds,  Sail Numbers of Racing Yachts 1968

 Mead, C. J. H., The History of the Royal Cornwall Yacht Club 1871 -1940
Including a Contemporary Account of the Falmouth Sailing Club and Items of Interest Concerning Yachting in General.
Published by Underhill (Plymouth) Ltd,  Regent Street, 1951 [Falmouth (Reference) Library]
Link here to period 1871-1923                                                                              
Link here to 1824-1949


 Mead, C. J. H., MEAD & WEST FAMILIES IN CORNWALL 1751-1941 (Limited edition published privately in 1941)
Includes Harvey's of Hayle and other family connections.  [see images here]
 (Copies owned by Andrew Campbell, and by Peter Gilson, Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society Local History Group)


 Sunbeam Class - Falmouth Division., The Falmouth Sunbeams 75th Anniversary Championships Programme
Designed and produced by CTD - Christian Topf  (Tel 01326  315551)


 Summers, D. L. "H.M.S.Ganges. Boys Training for the Royal Navy"

 Wainwright, David & Dinn, Catherine, Henry Scott Tuke 1858-1929 Under Canvas
Published by Sarema Press Ltd., London (1989)  ISBN  1 870758 02 1

 Yachting Monthly Magazine  
(Images and textual extracts from my owned bound annuals from1924-1942)
Photocopies of YM articles available upon request

 Waite, B. R., "Seaview Mermaids and Solent Sunbeams"  Yachting Monthly, no. 228, (pp. 368-370) April 1925