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George G. Sharp, Inc. is a marine design and naval architecture firm established in 1920 in New York by George Gillies Sharp, former Chief Surveyor of the American Bureau of Shipping. The firm started with the design of excursion steamboats on the Delaware and Hudson rivers, then moved into oceangoing passenger and cargo shipping. From 1934 Sharp designed a standardized series of merchant ships for the U.S. Department of Commerce. During World War II Sharp designed the standardized Victory ship, of which 534 were built, and 50 escort carriers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.georgesharp.com/SHARP_Home.htm )〕 Some of the 1500 vessels designed by Sharp include: * Type C2 ship prototype * Type C3 ship prototype * SS ''Ancon'', SS ''Panama'' and SS ''Cristobal'', "World of Tomorrow" ships for the Panama Railroad Steamship line, 1939 * ''Milwaukee Clipper'', the last passenger steamship on the Great Lakes, 1940 * Mississippi River Towboat, built for the U.S. Army Engineers, 1942 * Victory ship, 534 built during World War II * , 50 built during World War II * and three other destroyer tenders based on C3 hulls during World War II * , 13 built for the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II * , and passenger cargo ships for the Mississippi Shipping Company's South American Service, 1946—47 * and storeships for the U.S. Navy in the 1950s * , class of seven for the U.S. Navy in the 1960s * NS ''Savannah, the first nuclear-powered merchant ship * , four nuclear-powered cruisers for the U.S. Navy in the 1970s * Staten Island Ferrys ''Andrew J. Barberi'' and ''Samuel I. Newhouse'' (1970s), ''Alice Austen'' and ''John A. Noble'' (1980s and 1990s), and the ''Guy V. Molinari'', ''Senator John. J. Marchi'' and ''Spirit of America'' (2000s).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.georgesharp.com/SHARP_History.htm )〕 By the 1930s Sharp was described together with Gibbs & Cox as one of the leading naval architecture firms in the United States. In 1938, he designed the passenger cargo vessel ''Cristobal'' for Panama Line Service to the Canal Zone.〔''Selections from the Work of George G. Sharp, Naval Architect and George G. Sharp Architectural Associates.'' Architecture and Design Vol. XIII (1949). (Southeastern Architectural Archive ), Special Collections Division, Tulane University Libraries.〕 Sharp prepared the working drawings for the ''Casablanca class escort carrier''s built by Henry J. Kaiser's California Shipbuilding Corporation in 1942-43.〔Lane, p. 612〕 and the working plans for the Victory Ship series in 1943, allowing individual shipbuilding yards to modify the plans according to local practices.〔Lane, p. 580〕 After World War II, the company developed a 17,000-ton luxury liner, the ''SS Del Norte'', for service between New Orleans and the east coast of South America. The Del Norte was built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation at Pascagoula, Mississippi and each room featured ocean views through casement windows. The ships were characterized by a dummy funnel in which officer's quarters, radio room and emergency generator were housed. ''Del Norte'', first of the three, was described as 'today's ship of tomorrow,' it was the first cargo-passenger ship equipped with commercial radar.〔"Liner Del Norte Is Due Thursday." ''The Times-Picayune'' (November 11, 1946), p. 10.〕 In addition to design services, Sharp provides consultation on modification, maintenance, safety, systems integration and program management, with about 600 employees.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://seaport.georgesharp.com/team.htm )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George G. Sharp」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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