The Scottish-Norwegian designer whose rescue cutters and pilot boats defined the seagoing double-ender, and whose name is now a type as much as a person.
- Yard
- Laurvig Strandværft at Rekkevik, founded 1874
- Method
- Combined Chapman's displacement theory with Scott Russell's midship-section placement; introduced a ballast keel in 1882
- Redningsskøyte
- Won an 1892–93 design competition; 33 rescue boats built, 28 to his own design
- from 1872Norwegian pilot boats
- 1893RS1 Colin Archer — 47-ft rescue cutter
- 1892Fram — polar ship for Nansen, later Amundsen
Sourcing notes & unresolved questions
- 'Colin Archer' in a boat listing usually means the type, not the man. Farida (1960) postdates Archer's death by four decades.
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