A New Zealander who became one of Britain's most admired postwar designers, by way of a Scottish yard and the Admiralty.
- Born
- Hawke's Bay, New Zealand; early fame there as a helmsman and small-craft designer
- Britain
- Yard manager at Morris & Lorimer, Sandbank, Scotland in the 1930s
- War
- Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, Lieutenant Commander; worked with the Admiralty and Air Ministry, collaborating with Uffa Fox on airborne lifeboats
- Postwar
- London practice, best known for one-design cruiser-racers popular in the United States
- Honour
- MBE
- Archive
- Arthur C. Robb papers, Mystic Seaport
- —Radiant class
- —Robb 35
- —Seaview Maiden
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