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Scale Models of LV72
SIB by Allan Stevens
Allan Stevens is a prolific ship in a bottle (SIB) modeler, he served with Trinity House on lightvessels and previously built a SIB of LV8 Tongue lightvessel, which he served on, with the advent of Radio and later TV, many of the crafting pastimes to while away the hours of boredom when not on duty dwindled away and many lost to time and are now distant memories
To mark LV72's time on Juno station 80 years ago Allan asked me to send him plans and images of her, this model is only 4 inches long, as you can see the model has the smallest of details including crew manning thier stations, all custom made by Allan,
The SIB is now on display at the RNPS Musuem at Lowestoft and i have the second one i commissioned
To date Allan has built four lightship SIB's
his first LV8 Tongue , two of LV72 on Juno station and his more recently in February 2025 LV68 on Kansas station had been built, both SIB's are now on display at the museum
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