Word: savarona
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were some lean years for the firm in a land that had apparently forgotten all about ships and shipping. Gibbs & Cox designed the world's largest yacht, the Savarona, for the late Mrs. Richard M. Cadwalader, equipped it as ordered with public-address system, mother-of-pearl inlaid bathrooms, gold-plated doorknobs. They also designed the Santa boats for the Grace Line. But not until the U.S. Government decided to embark on a destroyer program did Gibbs & Cox really get under...