Linton Hope

Won two Olympic golds sailing in 1900, designed Thames raters and canoes, and ended by drawing flying-boat hulls for the Admiralty — the same problem, in air.

Olympics

Two gold medals at Paris, 1900, in the half-to-one-ton and open classes, sailing Scotia

Appointment

Naval architect to the King of the Belgians

Range

Yachts, international canoes, Thames raters and half-raters; hulls used by Indian yacht clubs at Malabar, Nainital and Rangoon

Aviation

Designed the AD Flying Boat, 1915, for the Admiralty's Air Department; his hull thinking shaped British flying boats into the 1920s

• 1900Scotia — Olympic gold
• 1915AD Flying Boat