IACH Archives:
Memorial Book:
The
IACH has produced a memorial book giving a brief biography about all the
full and associate members of the British Section of the AICH (1957-2003).
All the information gathered for this publication will be passed to the
National Maritime Museum; which holds documents, paintings, exhibits and
artifacts donated by AICH members. The IACH Archivist can be contacted
through this
website.
Journal Index
The first issue of the British Section's
journal came out in the winter of 1964/65. It was intended that the journal
would bring our members closer together and it was intended particularly
for those who lived too far away from London to attend meetings. Captain
A.G. Course was its first editor and he wrote in his first editorial, "The object of this small journal
is to promote and strengthen the ties of comradeship which bind us together
and to keep alive the memories of the ships in which we sailed".
Today, forty years later, this is still the aim of this journal. Its readership
has changed with the years, it is younger and now primarily yacht crew rather
than former Merchant, or Royal Navy, officers and men with experience of
commercial sail.
The journal has always been published twice a year, its content and the format has remained basically the same inspite of five changes of editor and several methods of production. The first journals were typed by Mrs Alice Course who continued to do so until the death of her husband in 1976. Since then the present editor, Chris Roche, has moved onto using modern computer technology.
The aim of this selective index is to provide access to information about individual members, sailing vessels and yachts. Various other topics are also covered, such as reports about the annual international congress. It is not intended to cover the mention of every individual member or vessel unless the content warrants it.
It is hoped that "annual additions to the index" will be published with a cumulative index very ten years.
If you would like to view or download the fully searchable Journal index of all editions from 1964 to January 2011, CLICK HERE. It is a 22 page PDF file.
