George Crouch

George F. Crouch (1879–1959) was an American boat designer.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]} He worked for the Dodge Boat Works in Newport News.^[7] Three speedboats built to his designs won the first three places in the 1924 Gold Cup of the American Power Boat Association.^[8]: 67 In 1939 his design for a torpedo boat was one of two approved by the US Navy for prototype construction;^[9]: 2 both designs were found in trials to be obsolescent, and a British design by Hubert Scott-Paine was chosen instead.^[9]: 10