A REMARKABLE HOMECOMING


THE MACANDREW ARCHIVE RETURNS TO DARTMOUTH


In December 2025, Dartmouth Museum received something truly special: the Vernon MacAndrew photographic archive, a major collection created in and around Dartmouth that has now returned to the town where so much of its story is rooted.


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or many local people, Vernon MacAndrew is a familiar name: he is remembered as a businessman, yachtsman, and


philanthropist, and as someone closely connected to Dartmouth’s maritime and social life in the interwar years. He lived at Ravensbury, (now Paradise Point) Warfleet, for around twenty years and played an active part to widen participation in sailing, especially river racing on Dart One Design dinghies that he sponsored, raced personally, and supported


with his motor yacht’s towing as many as 15 dinghies to regattas in Salcombe and Torbay. At the outbreak of the Second World


War, MacAndrew offered his motor yacht, Campeador V, to the Admiralty for patrol work, and the vessel was attached to the Auxiliary Patrol Service. Despite being 58 years old, he volunteered to serve aboard her himself, alongside two other members of the Royal Dart Yacht Club. Tey served intensively and with distinction in the opening phase of the war, and all three were promoted to Temporary Lieutenants shortly before Campeador V struck a magnetic mine off Bembridge, Isle of Wight, on 22 June 1940. She sank with the loss of 20 of her 22 crew, including MacAndrew. What had not been widely known


until now is that, alongside his public life, MacAndrew pursued photography with remarkable commitment for more than thirty years. Te archive now in Dartmouth Museum contains around


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