5-398: William Hand may refer to: William Hand (yacht designer) , yacht designer Black Hand (comics) , DC Comics character William Brevard Hand (1924–2008), U.S. federal judge Bill Hand (William R. Hand, 1898–?), English footballer See also [ edit ] William Hands , English cricketer [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
10-587: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages William Hand (yacht designer) William H. Hand Jr. (1875–1946) was an American yacht designer. Hand has been described as one of the most prolific yacht designers of the 20th century with an exceptionally good eye for handsome boats. Hand's career began around 1900 with the design of small sailboats , but he soon shifted to V-bottomed powerboats . These latter were his specialty until after World War I , when he directed his talent to seakindly schooners including
15-675: The famous examples Bowdoin and S.S.S. Lotus . Later during the 1930s, motorsailers became his passion; examples still sailing include 56' STEADFAST (a ketch) built at Wheeler Shipyard in Brooklyn, NY. Hand's office was in Fairhaven, Massachusetts . Advertisements in The Rudder and Motorboat magazines, as well as MIT archives indicate he did business in New Bedford, Massachusetts prior to Fairhaven but moved offices due to
20-619: The hurricanes of 1938. The New England Hurricane of 1938 and accompanying tidal surge damaged or destroyed a good deal of Hand's design work and records. Hand's surviving drawings are at the Hart Nautical Collections, MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts . A two-part article on Hand, published in Woodenboat Nos. 28 and 29 (May/June and July/August 1979) covers the designer's career. Additional material
25-406: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link 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=William_Hand&oldid=1055946317 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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