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Eric Ravilious, Lifeboat, 1938.

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2019-06-12

Traction town thumbnails and a ‘Water Town’ concept. The lifeboats-as-habitat-pods was another Nick Keller idea.

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2019-06-02

What's more fitting for our first tweet than a launch? The Bristol and Clifton Lifeboat! officially launched on the zoo lake in 1866. Find out about it on the KYP website. https://t.co/SnomRzq9UM

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2019-05-23

On This Day - April 24th, 1916 the ‘James Caird’ lifeboat was launched.
Aboard Tom Crean (Co. Kerry), Sir Ernest Shackleton (Co. Kildare), Tim McCarthy (Co. Cork), "Chippy" McNish, John Vincent & Frank Worsley. available from

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2019-04-24

Harriet Byles the Headteacher of Salt Girls’ School 1886-1920, would learn that her nephew, born Fr Thomas Byles, perished on the 1912. He refused a lifeboat place twice as he helped others. His body was never recovered.

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2019-04-15

"'Enjoy yourself now!' everybody says in Dublin, and they mean enjoy yourself *notwithstanding*."
- Jan Morris
The Lifeboat Bar, by Bert Hardy, 1955

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2019-03-12

Hello I have doodled a heroic trio of animal lifeboat rescuers. Tim the fox, Clive the eagle and Judith the cat are out saving lives 24/7.

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2019-02-28

CONGRATULATIONS to on winning the SCBWI 2019 GOLDEN KITE AWARD for LIFEBOAT 12!🎉🏆
https://t.co/XJhZgNUXc8

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2019-01-16

RNLI Art for Lifeboats Exhibition North Devon Yacht Club 19-21st October

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2018-10-18

Plein air watching the lifeboats playing in the surf at Hastings # hastings

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2018-10-14

Out with the cad red and yellow today working on the jacket and life jacket. Knocking back the whiteness of the canvas to let the gecko helmet sing. Part of the portrait project. “OilSkins” A portrait of the this November

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2018-08-20

New recruit - the brilliant Tony Parsons, not just a fine artist, but helmsman of the Brighton Lifeboat. Not only does he paint water better than just about anyone, he is also a fantastic caricaturist! What a talent. Details at https://t.co/FPcZHK0PPp

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2018-08-16

This big narrative piece had lots of colour added in over the terra vert base. Need to make the foreground dark so you look through the picture. Part of my portrait project the November.

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2018-07-30

Couldn’t resist starting the next lifeboat crew portrait. This is stage one, drawn out in transparent terra vert and Payne’s grey. Not worrying about tonal value yet.

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2018-01-05

Lifeboat - Bo Bartlett

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2017-12-10

The tiniest lifeboat, with the people I know.

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2017-12-03