Boats and Designers
A total of 500 numbered boats were built at the yard, according to the yard build-book. However, in addition, around 300 smaller boats (under 20 ft) were also built: fishing skiffs; rowing boats; sailing dinghies; tenders (gigs); sailing lifeboats; motorised lifeboats.
Read more about this topic: Alexander Robertson And Sons Ltd, Tables
Famous quotes containing the words boats and/or designers:
“You men have proved that PT boats have some value in this war. Washington wants you back in the States to build them up. Those are my orders.”
—Frank W. Wead (1895?–1947)
“The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)