Английская Википедия:Charles Ernest Nicholson
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Charles Ernest Nicholson (12 May 1868 – 26 February 1954) was a British yacht designer.
Biography
He was born in 1868, one of four sons and six daughters of Benjamin Nicholson (1828-1906), also a yacht designer, and the original Nicholson of Camper and Nicholson. His eldest brother, Benjamin Watson Nicholson (1857-1927), and younger brother, Arthur William Nicholson (1872-1957) also became directors of the firm.
Nicholson's first design of note was the Redwing class. The Bembridge sailing club met in October 1896 to agree the need for a shallow draughted yacht - to allow for the shoal waters of Bembridge Harbour - which could be sailed single-handed, to replace the expensive half racers. Nicholson designed the yacht in ten days, and by 1898 the fleet consisted of 16 boats, all built by the Camper & Nicholsons shipyard.[1]
In the early 1900s Nicholson developed a new powered craft which would enable the owners to come from their "big-boats" before and after the competitions. Named the Gelyce class, the name derived from the combined first and last letter of the wives of the three brothers: Gertie (married to Ben Jr), Lucy (married to Charles), and Constance (married Arthur).
In 1912, Nicholson introduced the 15mR design Istria with a Marconi rig, the first yacht in the world with a lightweight, laminated wood construction. This led to further developments and growing expertise in the use of lightweight materials which saw its fruition in the use of plywood in deck construction.[2] This ultimately led to arguably Nicholson's most beautiful sailing creation, the 1927 commissioned Vira (later Creole) was built on behalf of Alexander Smith Cochran.[3]
He died on 26 February 1954.[4]
Nicholson designs
- Dacia (5-rater, 1891)
- Marigold (cutter, 1892) - still sails
- Avel (cutter, 1896) - still sails as tender to Creole (see below)
- Black Swan (originally Brynhyld, yawl, 1899) - still sails
- Merrymaid (handicap cruising yacht, 1904) - still sails[5]
- Norland (schooner, 1904)
- Nyria (first large Bermuda cutter, 1906)
- Brynhild II (23mR, 1907)
- Joyette (originally Almara) (101 ft, 1907) - under refit
- Orion (racing schooner, 1910) - still sails
- Istria (15mR, 1912)
- The Brat of Dunkirk (38 Yawl, 1913)-Hout Bay Yacht Club - restoration project
- Marguerita (racing schooner, 1913)
- Pamela (15mR, 1913)
- Paula III (15mR, 1913)
- Shamrock IV (Universal Rule 75-footer, 1914) for Sir Thomas Lipton
- Patricia (R-Class, 1921)
- BARBARA (Bermuda yawl, 1923) - still sails
- Sylvia (Bermuda ketch, 1925) - still sails
- Hurrica V (24 m ketch, 1924, Nicholson design 315), Built in Australia, restored at Norman Wrights in Brisbane, en route to San Francisco
- Creole (originally Vira, three-mast staysail schooner, 1927) - still sails
- Astra (23mR, 1928) - still sails
- Lady Van" (Universal Rule “R” Class, 1928) - still sails
- Candida (23mR, 1929) - still sails
- Driac (Bermudian cutter, 40', 1930) - still sails
- Shamrock V (J-class yacht, 1930) for Sir Thomas Lipton - still sails [6]
- Patience (Bermuda cutter, 1931) - still sails
- Velsheda (J-class yacht, 1933) - still sails
- Endeavour (J-class yacht, 1934) - still sails [7]
- Endeavour II (J-class yacht, 1936)
- Bloodhound (12mR, 1936) - still sails
- Gadwall (30' Bermuda Sloop, 1939) - Xyris Class - still sails (one of a class of eight yachts designed in the late 1930s)
- Oiseau de Feu (originally Firebird X, offshore racing ketch, 1937) - still sails
- Trivia (12mR, 1937) - still sails
- Folly (8mR first rule) 1909 was his boat (Mr Charles E Nicholson designed for himself and was built at Camper & Nicholson in Gosport). Still sails and race.
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