G.L. Watson’s lifeboat designs feature strongly in Gavin Atkin’s recent in the boatshed blog post on Thames Ironworks Heritage Trust’s ambitious plans to revive the memory of a forgotten Leviathan of British shipbuilding.
Many of Watson’s ‘pulling and sailing’ lifeboats were built there – from wood – at Bow Creek’s once vulcanic confluence with the Thames Tideway.
~ Iain McAllister ~
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