This Is Your Life: Uffa Fox

Uffa FOX CBE (1898-1972)

THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Uffa Fox, boat designer and sailing enthusiast was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the Colston Hall in Bristol, from where the programme was then recorded.

Born and raised on the Isle of Wight, Uffa set up his own boat building business at the age of 21. Prior to the Second World War Uffa had established his name primarily in the world of dinghies, where his designs dominated the National Twelves, Fourteens and Eighteens.

During the Second World War Uffa conceived the idea of the Airborne Lifeboat, a vessel to be carried beneath aeroplanes and dropped by parachute to survivors of ditched aircraft. Many aircrews owed their lives to Uffa’s invention.

programme details...

Edition No: 212
Subject No: 213
Broadcast date: Tue 29 Jan 1963
Broadcast time: 7.55-8.25pm
Recorded: Thu 24 Jan 1963 8.00pm
Venue: Colston Hall, Bristol
Series: 8
Edition: 17

on the guest list...

Leonard Faichney
Robert Lumsden
Wilfred Heber
Joe Porter
Bill Waight
Spike Crews
Peter Scott
Charlie Willis
James Bowman
Charles Parry
Jack Loveless
Yvonne Fox – wife

production team...

Director: Vere Lorrimer
Producer: T Leslie Jackson

names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life

related pages...

Life on the Ocean Wave

adventurers of the high seas

Peter Scott

Uffa Fox with his wife, Yvonne, on This Is Your Life

Series 8 subjects