F.S. Nock and Co. Lines Plans (5468)

Historical note

Frederic S. Nock was born in Birmingham, England, and emigrated to the United States as a child with his parents who settled in New York. He began designing yachts in 1895 and established the Narragansett Yacht Agency at Providence in 1896. In 1902 he purchased the yard at East Greenwich, RI previously owned by the John Saunders Marine Railway Company. Nock died in 1925.