Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Johnston Warren Lines: 24 January 1925: Converted to Hospital ship in 1940, bombed and sunk off Salerno in 1943 with the loss of 38 lives: RMS Nova Scotia [39] Passenger cargo ship: Johnston Warren Lines: 1926: Converted to troopship in 1941, torpedoed and sunk in the Indian Ocean SE off Natal Province in 1942, while carrying Italian prisoners ...
The company supplied completed, ready-to-sail boats and also kits for amateur completion. [ 2 ] To adapt the South Coast 21 to become a trailerable sailboat for that emerging market in the late 1960s, Metcalf and his chief engineer, James Munroe, made changes to the South Coast 21 to create the South Coast 22 , introduced in 1968.
He owned an 87-foot (27 m) $5 million Warren yacht. His fleet of exotic cars included: 1974, 2006, 2007, and 2008 Ferraris, 2009 Bentley, 2007 Silver Rolls-Royce, and one 2008 and two 2010 Lamborghini Murcielagos — worth about $400,000 each, a pair of $1.6 million Bugattis, and a pair of Harleys which he maintains in an air-conditioned warehouse.
The South Coast 25 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Warren Metcalf as a cruiser and first built in 1969. [1] [2] The boat was the first design effort by Metcalf, who was the son of the company owner, Hollis Metcalf. Warren Metcalf was killed in a diving accident just before completing the work on the design.
Hunter Marine was an American boat builder, now known as Marlow-Hunter, LLC, owned by David E. Marlow.The company did produce the Mainship powerboat brand. Marlow also owns and manufactures the Marlow Yachts brand consisting of long range power cruisers in the 37 to 110 foot range.
The first generation of Ranger designs noted below bear a strong resemblance to these boats. The Ranger 22 (1977), 23 (1971), 26 (1969), 29 (1970), 32 (1973), 33 (1970), and 37 (1972). Most of these were cruiser-racers built to no particular handicap rule, but they rate favorably under PHRF and Portsmouth handicap and have been quite successful ...
The first seven production boats were built by Holby Marine of Bristol, Rhode Island United States for Alerion Yachts in Warren, Rhode Island. After that boats were built by Tillotson Pearson, also of Rhode Island for Alerion Yachts. Production started in 1990 and it remained in production in 2021.
In a 1991 review in Cruising World by Quentin Warren wrote, "long and lean, carrying a deep keel and a tall rig, the new 55-foot ULDB offered this year by the W.D. Schock Corporation is a striking Bruce Marek design with serious racing potential and a one-design slant."