George Crouch

George F. Crouch (1879–1959) was an American boat designer.[1][2][3][4][5][6] He worked for the Dodge Boat Works in Newport News.[7] Three speedboats built to his designs won the first three places in the 1924 Gold Cup of the American Power Boat Association.[8]:67 In 1939 his design for a torpedo boat was one of two approved by the US Navy for prototype construction;[9]:2 both designs were found in trials to be obsolescent, and a British design by Hubert Scott-Paine was chosen instead.[9]:10

George F. Crouch
Born1879
Died1959

Designs

Peter Pan, 1911[3]

Typhoon, 1920[10]

Rainbow I, 1920[11]

Rainbow IV, 1924[11]

Baby Bootlegger, 1924

Miss Columbia, 1924[12]

Teaser, 1924[13]

Impshi, 1924[14]

Arcadian, 1926[1]

Janice III, 1927[1]

Gypsy Queen, 1936[15]

PT1, PT2, PT3, PT4, 1938[16]

Cinderella[10]

References

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