For that, IMT are proud to be able to present Wes with the Richard W Smith Award for 2021.
The award was launched by IMT in 2020, in memory of author and photographer Mr Smith, who died in 2017.
He was a founder member of the trust and a great contributor to appreciation of local maritime history and heritage.
A bronze cast medallion is awarded annually to a person or organisation who has contributed in a significant way to the understanding of local maritime culture or heritage. The first award went to historian Robert Malster.
David Wes Westwood, the skipper of Sailing Barge Victor, receiving the Richard W Smith Memorial Award from Geoffrey Dyball, chairman of Ipswich Maritime Trust