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1886 – 1957 · Boston, Massachusetts

Ralph E. Winslow

Naval architect — Boston

A designer with an unusually well-documented career path through the great New England offices, and the name most associated with the Friendship-sloop cruising type.

Career
Small Brothers (1904) → William H. Hand → chief draftsman at Swasey, Raymond & Page (1909–17) → Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. (1917) → independent → Eldredge-McInnis (1928–31) → independent again
Archive
Papers at Mystic Seaport's Ships Plans Division
  • 1922Mount Desert Island One-Design
  • 1948Winslow 42
  • 1953Winslow 36
Sourcing notes & unresolved questions
  • One research pass found birth and death years of 1886–1957; another could not verify them. Treat as provisional.

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