• Thumbnail for George Lennox Watson
    George Lennox Watson (30 October 1851 – 12 November 1904) was a Scottish naval architect. Born in Glasgow, son of Thomas Lennox Watson, a doctor at the...
    9 KB (1,122 words) - 20:53, 26 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMY Britannia (Royal Cutter Yacht)
    his son King George V with a long racing career. Britannia was ordered in 1892 by the Prince of Wales and designed by George Lennox Watson. She was a near...
    15 KB (1,608 words) - 06:17, 11 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Valkyrie III
    defender Defender. Valkyrie III, a keel cutter, was designed by George Lennox Watson and built at the D&W Henderson on the River Clyde in 1894-1895 for...
    5 KB (409 words) - 20:39, 3 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Watson-class lifeboat
    years but all the boats had hulls that conformed to a design by George Lennox Watson, the RNLI's naval architect from 1887 until his death in 1904. The...
    26 KB (1,210 words) - 17:13, 16 August 2024
  • States 2–0 Thistle Royal Clyde Yacht Club  Scotland James H. Bell George Lennox Watson D.&W. Henderson & Co John Barr 8 1893 New York City Charles Oliver...
    25 KB (38 words) - 13:14, 8 February 2024
  • Airmen George Lennox Watson (1851–1904), Scottish naval architect George Watson (accountant) (1654–1723), Scottish accountant and the founder of George Watson's...
    2 KB (300 words) - 21:41, 1 June 2024
  • Bethwaite Gary Mull Germán Frers George Cassian George Harding Cuthbertson George Hinterhoeller George Lennox Watson George Steers Graham & Schlageter Greg...
    5 KB (490 words) - 11:35, 11 December 2023
  • challenged again in 1901, turning this time to George Lennox Watson for a "cup-lifter": Shamrock II, Watson's fourth and final challenger, was the first cup...
    72 KB (8,838 words) - 13:30, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Valkyrie II
    Vigilant. Valkyrie II was a gaff-rigged cutter. She was designed by George Lennox Watson and built alongside HMY Britannia at the D&W Henderson shipyard,...
    7 KB (691 words) - 01:05, 23 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for J Class (yacht)
    First ship-owner and Yacht Club Description 1893 Britannia 1 K1 George Lennox Watson Prince Albert Edward, RYS YRA first class rater converted to the...
    24 KB (1,932 words) - 21:36, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ogden Goelet
    White Ladye. His final yacht was named Mayflower and was designed by George Lennox Watson in 1896 and built on the Clyde (Scotland) by J & G Thompson. After...
    12 KB (1,117 words) - 18:57, 25 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thistle (yacht)
    Volunteer. The cutter Thistle was designed by George Lennox Watson, with interiors by his brother Thomas Lennox Watson, and built at the D&W Henderson shipyard...
    5 KB (407 words) - 02:01, 27 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Alexander Robertson & Sons
    Verve, designed by George Lennox Watson in 1892, was the first of many to be built at the yard. The 1894 22 ft (6.7 m) G L Watson designed Gaff cutter...
    54 KB (5,425 words) - 16:33, 3 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for James Guthrie (artist)
    Scottish National Portrait Gallery archive James Younger (1856–1946) George Lennox Watson Schoolmates (1884), MSK Ghent, Belgium Brian Sewell. "The Cabbage...
    11 KB (1,093 words) - 14:07, 27 September 2024
  • suit local needs. George Lennox Watson was appointed the RNLI's naval architectural adviser in 1887. He produced a prototype Watson-class non-self righting...
    7 KB (661 words) - 20:10, 14 August 2024
  • Thomas Lennox Watson (21 August 1850 – 12 October 1920), FRIBA, was a Scottish architect and interior designer. Born in Glasgow, he submitted designs...
    5 KB (422 words) - 14:07, 20 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for D. and W. Henderson and Company
    by Edward, Prince of Wales and designed by George Lennox Watson. She was a near sister ship to the Watson-designed Valkyrie II. Details of the commission...
    5 KB (555 words) - 09:47, 14 May 2024
  • Club on Jekyll Island, Georgia. His yacht Nahma was designed by George Lennox Watson, and built for him on the River Clyde in 1897. After his death, it...
    13 KB (1,245 words) - 18:44, 25 September 2024
  • larger 95-foot Steam-Tug, the Helen Peele (ON 478), designed by George Lennox Watson, and built at Ramage & Ferguson, Victoria Shipyard, Leith, arriving...
    10 KB (970 words) - 12:42, 20 May 2024
  • between 1956 and 1991. The 47 ft Watson was the final development of the basic hull design laid out by George Lennox Watson in the late nineteenth century...
    10 KB (518 words) - 21:42, 5 May 2024
  • 1920) 5 October – Frederic Fisher, admiral (died 1943) 30 October – George Lennox Watson, Scottish naval architect (died 1904) 21 November – Leslie Ward ("Spy")...
    11 KB (1,189 words) - 07:14, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for George III
    1759, George was smitten with Lady Sarah Lennox, sister of Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond, but Lord Bute advised against the match and George abandoned...
    92 KB (10,314 words) - 07:04, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
    had been ordered by the Prince of Wales in 1892 and designed by George Lennox Watson. It was completed in 1893 and Williams-Bulkeley owned and raced it...
    15 KB (1,354 words) - 15:21, 6 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for St Annes Lifeboat Station
    Naval Architect George Lennox Watson, it was initially known as the 'Modified Southport Type', but later became better known as a Watson-class lifeboat...
    18 KB (1,903 words) - 20:31, 23 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Royal Canadian Yacht Club
    looking back to Britain for well-rounded designs from such notables as George Lennox Watson and William Fife. In 1896, Lincoln Park Yacht Club of Chicago challenged...
    25 KB (3,148 words) - 17:13, 9 September 2024
  • and build Dacia. While still being built, the yard was visited by George Lennox Watson, the other great designer of the time, who seeing her commented 'That'll...
    88 KB (9,915 words) - 20:27, 21 September 2024
  • 1995 Arthur Knapp, Jr. Morris Rosenfeld Henry Sears T.O.M. Sopwith George Lennox Watson 1996 Sir Peter Blake Russell Coutts Chandler Hovey Frank J. Murdoch...
    10 KB (576 words) - 00:31, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rona (1892)
    Rona was a sailing yacht designed by George Lennox Watson. She was constructed in 1892 in Auckland, New Zealand, by master craftsman and designer Robert...
    5 KB (412 words) - 15:02, 4 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1893 in Scotland
    April – gaff rigged racing cutter yacht HMY Britannia, designed by George Lennox Watson for Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, is launched at D. and W. Henderson...
    5 KB (415 words) - 17:22, 6 August 2024
  • yacht "Thistle" but was unsuccessful. The yacht was designed by George Lennox Watson and built by D & W Henderson in the winter of 1886/7. The ship was...
    4 KB (413 words) - 13:19, 23 September 2024