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Sir Jack Hayward, born June 14 1923, died January 13 2015
After Bermuda's Warren Brown, another sailing great dies.
He funded three international racing yachts Great Britain I, II and III, spent £100,000 on saving the sloop Gannet (the Royal Navy’s only survivor of the transition from sail to steam) and contributed another £100,000 to help raise the Mary Rose.
In the meantime, Hayward had continued to find patriotic causes on which to shower his money. In 1976 he gave £150,000 to pay for the salvage of Brunel’s SS Great Britain in the Falklands and return her to her original dock in Bristol; he later invited Paul Getty Jnr to match his £500,000 to complete the vessel’s restoration.
With apologies to the Daily Telegraph.
Sir Jack's full obituary is posted at:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11343314/Sir-Jack-Hayward-obituary.html
After Bermuda's Warren Brown, another sailing great dies.
He funded three international racing yachts Great Britain I, II and III, spent £100,000 on saving the sloop Gannet (the Royal Navy’s only survivor of the transition from sail to steam) and contributed another £100,000 to help raise the Mary Rose.
In the meantime, Hayward had continued to find patriotic causes on which to shower his money. In 1976 he gave £150,000 to pay for the salvage of Brunel’s SS Great Britain in the Falklands and return her to her original dock in Bristol; he later invited Paul Getty Jnr to match his £500,000 to complete the vessel’s restoration.
With apologies to the Daily Telegraph.
Sir Jack's full obituary is posted at:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11343314/Sir-Jack-Hayward-obituary.html
