4-580: (Redirected from Bell Boy Boats ) The Bell Boy Boat Company was a division of the Bellingham Shipyards Co. of Bellingham, Washington set up by the shipyard owner Arch Talbot in 1952. Talbot was interested in creating a line of fiberglass boats, having worked with the material when the shipyard created of line of lifeboats for minesweepers in the Korean War called wherries . The company's use of fiberglass
8-481: The original (PDF) on 2011-02-23 . Retrieved 2011-11-08 . ^ Currier, Al (2001-06-01). "Bell Boy an early pioneer in fiberglass-boat design" . Bellingham Business Journal. Archived from the original on 2016-04-15 . Retrieved 19 April 2012 . Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bell_Boy_(boat)&oldid=1181388176 " Category : American boat builders Bellingham Shipyards The Bellingham Shipyards
12-808: Was founded in 1941 by Arch Talbot before the Second World War in Bellingham, Washington from the merger of the Bellingham Marine Railway and the Bellingham Iron Works. During the war the shipyard produced wooden minesweepers for the United States Navy . At the time they were the largest privately owned shipyard in the United States. The yard continued operations after the war under the name Bellingham Marine. They built Minesweepers for
16-426: Was pioneering; the material, despite having its commercial introduction in the 1930s, had seen limited use or interest until the postwar period. The Bell Boy line of boats, during the 1950s and 1960s, were considered to be one of the earliest types of fiberglass boats. References [ edit ] ^ Perpoli, Blake. "When it all Began" (PDF) . Boats & Bits . Fishing Western Australia. Archived from
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