Later Years
In December 1944 Scott-Paine received a cheque for $200,000 from the United States Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal in recognition of his services.
In 1945 all contracts at both the Canadian and British Power boat Companies were cancelled.
Scott-Paine was divorced in 1946 and married Margaret Dinkeldein, his secretary, in New York in the same year. His health had not been good for years and in April, two months later, he suffered a stroke.
In 1948 he was made an American citizen. Hubert Scott-paine died at Greenwich, Connecticut on 14 April 1954, aged 63.
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Famous quotes containing the word years:
“So many things I had thought forgotten
Return to my mind with stranger pain:
Like letters that arrive addressed to someone
Who left the house so many years ago.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“We do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)