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  2. British Power Boat Company - Wikipedia

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    Together with his chief designer, Fred Cooper, the company produced the 26-foot single step hydroplane racing boat Miss England I. [1] Later after Fred Cooper had left, Hubert Scott-Paine designed Miss Britain III. From 1930 the British Power Boat Company supplied seaplane tenders to the Air Ministry, commencing with

  3. Hubert Scott-Paine - Wikipedia

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    From 1933 Scott-Paine designed and built hard chine motor torpedo boats, and MA/SB anti-submarine boats, from 1935 having them accepted by the Admiralty. Scott-Paine and George Selman designed and built a new 70-foot (21 m) private venture PV70, a seagoing MTB with three marinised Rolls-Royce Merlin engines.

  4. Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia

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    After World War II, the Royal Navy re-designated all its motor torpedo boats (MTBs) and motor gun boats (MGBs) as "fast patrol boats." The Brave-class fast patrol boats were the last craft to be built for the Coastal Forces, and the Coastal Forces were disbanded as a separate unit and their last base, (HMS Hornet), decommissioned in 1956.

  5. Go-fast boat - Wikipedia

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    US Navy SWCCs train with a modified go-fast boat during a training exercise in Mississippi. A typical go-fast is laid-up using a combination of fibreglass, kevlar and carbon fibre, using a deep "V" style offshore racing hull ranging from 6.1 to 15.2 metres (20 to 50 ft) long, narrow in beam, and equipped with two or more powerful engines, often totalling more than 750 kilowatts (1,000 hp).

  6. Lake freighter - Wikipedia

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    Followed Brunswick in advancing the design of what would become the Great Lakes boat Spokane: 1886 First steel-hulled lake freighter. Hennepin: 1888 Originally Str. George H. Dyer, it was the first ship retrofitted to have self-unloading equipment in 1902. Hennepin sank in a storm in 1927. [5] Wyandotte: 1908 First ship built as a self-unloader ...

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  9. Poet J.J. Tindall’s journey has taken him on buses, boats and ...

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    His name is J.J. Tindall, John Joseph more formally, and he is a talkative, enthusiastic man who has had a number of jobs during his working life, all of which have been based on words and music ...