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17-699: A prototype 70-foot boat was built by Hubert Scott-Paine 's British Power Boat Company and shipped to Canada in 1940. Canadian Power Boat Company was set up by Scott-Paine to produce motor torpedo boats for the Royal Canadian Navy and high-speed launches for the Royal Canadian Air Force to this design. The company was located on the Lachine Canal in Montreal , next to the Crane Company (makers of

34-613: A British Power Boat 70-footer (later named PT9), as a template for American production under licence. PT9 was taken by the SS President Roosevelt to Elco’s works at New London, Connecticut . On 3 October Scott-Paine met President Roosevelt and senior Elco representatives at the White House to authorize the creation of a new naval arm, the PT Boat Squadrons. (PT boat was short for patrol torpedo boat). Production started at

51-552: A new Elco factory at Bayonne, New Jersey in January 1940. The Canadian Power Boat Company was set up by Scott-Paine in 1940. This produced 39 boats, mainly MTBs. After the passing of Lend-Lease in 1941 comparative trials, nicknamed the Plywood Derbys , were held between rival American boatbuilders, Elco winning both. Elco went on to produce 754 70-, 77-, and 80-foot (24 m) PT boats, including Jack Kennedy ’s PT109 as well as

68-645: Is now on display at the Science Museum (London) . In the 1930s the British Power Boat Company supplied seaplane tenders and armoured target boats to the Air Ministry , and tenders for Imperial Airways flying boats. T E Shaw (Lawrence of Arabia) assisted in the testing of these boats. Although the factory was destroyed by fire in 1931, it was rapidly rebuilt and no contracts were lost. During 1932 and 1933 Scott-Paine and Fred Cooper designed and built

85-528: The Admiralty. Scott-Paine and George Selman designed and built a new 70-foot (21 m) private venture PV70, a seagoing MTB with three marinised Rolls-Royce Merlin engines. The boat was launched in 1938, but although no orders came from the Admiralty, orders were received from friendly governments. In 1939 agreement was reached with the American Electric Launch Company (Elco) to purchase

102-510: The boat that rescued General Douglas MacArthur from Corregidor . In December 1944, Scott-Paine received a cheque for $ 200,000 with an accompanying letter of appreciation for his contributions made to the development of the PT boat from Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal . The money was from Elco and was brokered by legal teams, releasing Elco from any and all further liabilities concerning

119-728: The first cross-channel flying boat service, between Woolston and the Channel Islands and Le Havre , using converted Supermarine AD Flying Boats . His company was named the British Marine Air Navigation Co Ltd . After his failed 1919 attempt for the Jacques Schneider Trophy , Supermarine won the Trophy in 1922 with its Sea Lion II . This allowed Britain to win it outright years later. In 1923 Scott-Paine sold Supermarine (for £192,000). In 1924 Imperial Airways

136-553: The 💕 (Redirected from Miss England (Speedboat) ) Miss England was the name applied to a series of speedboats used by Henry Segrave and Kaye Don to contest world water speed records in the 1920s and 1930s. Miss England I Miss England II Miss England III See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Miss England (Speedboat) . Miss Britain III [REDACTED] Index of articles associated with

153-644: The license rights. 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. Miss England (Speedboat) From Misplaced Pages,

170-578: The popular plumbing fixtures). The company received orders from the Royal Canadian Navy for 12 motor torpedo boats, including the prototype, from the RCAF for 6 70-foot high-speed launches and 6 40-foot armoured target-towing boats, and from the Royal Netherlands Navy for two batches of 8 70-foot motor torpedo boats. The second Dutch order was the last received by the company and was completed in

187-441: The rest of the war using its factory (specialized for building plywood boats) to produce parts for de Havilland Mosquito bombers. Scott-Paine sold the company in 1946, the basin at the plant was filled in but the factory still stands today. This article about a Canadian corporation or company is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Hubert Scott-Paine Hubert Scott-Paine (11 March 1891 – 14 April 1954)

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204-473: The same name This set index article includes a list of related items that share the same name (or similar names). If an internal link incorrectly led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miss_England_(speedboat)&oldid=1237478511 " Categories : Set index articles Racing motorboats Hidden categories: Commons category link

221-557: The single-engined Miss Britain III as a Harmsworth Trophy challenger. In a 1933 race Scott-Paine was narrowly defeated by the four-engined Miss America X . In 1934 Miss Britain III set the world record for a single-engined boat of 110.1 mph. Miss Britain III is now on display at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich . From 1933 Scott-Paine designed and built hard chine motor torpedo boats, and MA/SB anti-submarine boats, from 1935 having them accepted by

238-556: The summer of 1942. Four of these boats, were reverse Lend-Lease and became US PT 368-371 Of the 12 Royal Canadian Navy boats, only the prototype saw service in Canada, designated CMTB-1 before all twelve were transferred to the Royal Navy in 1941 for service in the Mediterranean. Unable to persuade the Royal Canadian Navy to purchase more motor torpedo boats, the company retooled and spent

255-679: The telegraphic address), with Hubert the factory manager at Woolston, Hampshire . In 1916 Scott-Paine bought the company and renamed it the Supermarine Aviation Company Limited , building flying boats for the British Admiralty . Reginald Mitchell (of Spitfire fame) was employed at this time and the company greatly expanded. Hubert married Alice Brenda Hockey in 1917, having four children. By this time he had changed his surname by hyphenating his parents' surnames to create Scott-Paine. In February 1919 Scott-Paine started

272-526: Was a British aircraft and boat designer, record-breaking power boat racer, entrepreneur, inventor, and sponsor of the winning entry in the 1922 Schneider Trophy . Hubert Paine was born in Shoreham-by-Sea , England , on 11 March 1891, to Henry Paine and Rosannah (née Scott). He was educated at Shoreham Grammar School . Scott-Paine worked for Noel Pemberton Billing dealing in yachts, eventually in 1913 forming Pemberton-Billing Ltd (with 'Supermarine' as

289-626: Was formed by the merger of Scott-Paine's British Marine Air Navigation Co Ltd and three other airlines. He was a director of Imperial Airways until 1939. The well-financed Scott-Paine now designed and raced power boats. In 1927 he bought the Hythe Shipyard, renaming it the British Power Boat Company . It was enlarged into one of the country's most modern mass production boat building yards. Many sophisticated award-winning racing boats were produced, an example being Miss England which

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