<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/06/Williams_30_0001.jpg"><h2>Williams 30</h2>To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Williams Performance Tenders, Motor Boats Monthly has picked out some of the tender manufacturer's best bits so far.<br><br>Brothers Mathew and John Hornsby founded Williams Marine, the predecessor to the company, in 1995 by building wooden boats out of their mother's shed in Oxfordshire.<br><br>Mum also provided her maiden name as the company's moniker.<br><img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/06/Williams_30_.20001.jpg"><h2>Williams 30</h2>Early examples of the Williams Marine hand-crafted cold-moulded wooden powerboats include the Williams 30...<br><img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/06/Tahoe_20_Mallorca0001.jpg"><h2>Williams Tahoe 20 Mallorca</h2>... as well as reconditioned Riva-like craft<br><img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/06/Jade_Mallorca_1998_MBM.jpg"><h2>Jade Mallorca 1998</h2>Despite retailing at around £130,000, these 60s-inspired boats barely turned a profit.<br><img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/06/IMG_1228.jpg"><h2>Williams founders Matthew and John Hornsby</h2>Discussions with major industry players Sealine and Fairline convinced the brothers to turn their attention to jet tenders, and Williams Performance Tenders was born in 2004.<br><img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/06/Williams_2006.jpg"><h2>Williams 2006</h2>By 2006, the company was already building 250 models per year.<br><img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/06/KIF_4804.jpg"><h2>Williams tenders</h2>By 2009, Williams was selling 90% of its RIBs to the trade as tenders for larger superyachts.<br><img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/06/New_generation_Turbojet_445.jpg"><h2>Williams new generation Turbojet 445</h2>Launched in 2009, the Turbojet 445 was the company's first stand-alone RIB (pictured here in its latest guise).<br><img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/06/Members_of_Williams_staff_receive_the_Queens_Award_for_Enterprise_2010.jpg"><h2>Williams Queen's Award</h2>Members of Williams' staff receive the Queen's Award for Enterprise - 2010<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/06/Mathew_Hornsby_John_Chartres_and_James_Barke_with_the_Breast_Cancer_Care_tender_and_Williams_factory_staff.jpg"><h2>Williams Breast Cancer Care Pink Tender</h2>Mathew Hornsby, John Chartres and James Barke with the Breast Cancer Care tender and Williams factory staff<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/06/Theo_Paphitis_vists_Williams_2010.jpg"><h2>Theo Paphitis vists Williams - 2010</h2>The company has also accrued a number of celebrity owners, from Mike Oldfield to Rafael Nadal, and from Jasper Conran to Dragons' Den star Theo Paphitis (pictured centre).<br><img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/06/Miss_England_at_Cannes_2011.jpg"><h2>Miss England at Cannes Boat Show 2011</h2>Miss England at Cannes Boat Show 2011<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/06/1000th_Turbojet_325.jpg"><h2>Williams 1000th Turbojet 325</h2>The Turbojet 325 is one of the company's best-selling models, here the brothers mark the 1000th 325 to come off the Berinsfield production line.<br><img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/06/New_generation_Turbojet_385.jpg"><h2>Williams new generation Turbojet 385</h2>Williams new generation Turbojet 385<img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/06/Williams_Dieseljet_625.jpg"><h2>Williams Dieseljet 625</h2>Last year also saw the introduction of their largest boat yet, the 625 Dieseljet.<br><img src="http://www.mby.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2014/06/565_Dieseljet.jpg"><h2>Williams 565 Dieseljet</h2>Williams 565 Dieseljet
