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...
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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...
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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...
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Airmen George Lennox Watson (1851–1904), Scottish naval architect George Watson (accountant) (1654–1723), Scottish accountant and the founder of George Watson's...
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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...
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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...
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Thomas Lennox Watson (21 August 1850 – 12 October 1920), FRIBA, was a Scottish architect and interior designer. Born in Glasgow, he submitted designs...
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Bethwaite Gary Mull Germán Frers George Cassian George Harding Cuthbertson George Hinterhoeller George Lennox Watson George Steers Graham & Schlageter Greg...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Naval Architect George Lennox Watson, it was initially known as the 'Modified Southport Type', but later became better known as a Watson-class lifeboat...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Scottish National Portrait Gallery archive James Younger (1856–1946) George Lennox Watson Schoolmates (1884), MSK Ghent, Belgium Brian Sewell. "The Cabbage...
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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,...
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larger 95-foot Steam-Tug, the Helen Peele (ON 478), designed by George Lennox Watson, and built at Ramage & Ferguson, Victoria Shipyard, Leith, arriving...
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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...
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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...
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1920) 5 October – Frederic Fisher, admiral (died 1943) 30 October – George Lennox Watson, Scottish naval architect (died 1904) 21 November – Leslie Ward ("Spy")...
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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...
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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...
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and Bell, and went on to work as a draftsman and apprentice to George Lennox Watson. Watson was the designer of the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia, the racing...
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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...
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same name in 1895 from Logan Brothers. Rona (1892) was designed by George Lennox Watson for Wellington merchant and benefactor Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull...
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Camper and Nicholsons (section The fourth generation - Christopher J Nicholson, Peter Nicholson, George Nicholson)
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...
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