William Kate Johnston in Ipswich Dock, 2003
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William Kate Johnston in Ipswich Dock, 2003
Image: © John Hardy Taken: Unknown
William & Kate Johnston, which is listed on the United Kingdom's National Register of Historic Vessels, was launched in 1923. She was designed as a prototype lifeboat by James R. Barnett, Consulting Naval Architect to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. She was built, with double diagonal teak hull, by J. Samuel White and Co. at Cowes. At the time of her launch she was the largest lifeboat in the world. (Length: 60 ft; Bre. 15 ft; Displacement 44.5 tons; cruising speed 9 knots; cruising radius 200 nautical miles.) See: http://www.william-kate-johnston.co.uk/ Behind is the old R & W Paul building, one of many mills which used to stand on the waterfront. It stood derelict for a number of years, and now I understand it has been demolished as part of the Waterfront Regeneration Scheme. See: http://www.bocmpauls.co.uk/bocm-pauls-about-us-our-history; http://ipswich-lettering.org/burtons.html
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