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 Preceded by US patrol boats - Followed by PTF boat