Peter Du Cane (mai tsara jirgin ruwa)

Peter Du Cane CBE (1901-1984) ya kasance kwamandan Royal Navy kuma manajan darektan kamfanin injiniya na Vospers . Ya taimaka wajen ci gaban Blue Bird II tsakanin sauran jiragen ruwa.

 Tarihin rayuwa 
An haifi Du Cane a shekara ta 1901, ɗan Charles Henry Copely Du Cane, na Braxted Park . Kakan mahaifinsa Sir Charles Du Cane ɗan siyasa ne kuma mai mulkin mallaka; kakarsa Georgiana 'yar John Copley ce, Baron Lyndhurst na farko . 

Ya shiga Royal Navy yana da shekaru goma sha uku kafin ya yi murabus daga aikinsa a matsayin Lieutenant-Commander a 1928.  A shekara mai zuwa ya shiga Royal Auxiliary Air Force inda ya tashi Westland Wapitis a No. 601 Squadron RAF .  Glen Kidston ya gayyaci Du Cane don shiga tare da shi a Vosper Shipyard . Bayan mutuwar Kidston da sauye-sauye masu yawa, an ba Du Cane matsayin manajan darektan. Ya yarda, yayin da yake riƙe da matsayinsa na Babban Mai tsarawa.

A karkashin jagorancin Du Cane, Vosper ya sami kwangila da yawa don jiragen ruwa masu saurin gudu, gami da gina Blue Bird K4 wanda, wanda Malcolm Campbell ya jagoranci,  ya ɗauki rikodin saurin ruwa na duniya a 1939.  Du Cane ya sami lambar yabo ta Segrave ta Royal Automobile Club a wannan shekarar saboda kokarinsa. Ya kuma tsara jirgin ruwa mai saurin gudu, MTB 102, 350 daga cikinsu Admiralty ne ya sayi su, kuma an yi amfani da su sosai a lokacin saukowar D-Day. Du Cane shi ne masanin gine-ginen sojan ruwa kuma mai tsarawa na waje na Brave Challenger, babban jirgin ruwa tare da saurin gudu  km / h; 69 ,  da kuma jiragen ruwa Tramontana da Tramontana II, tsohon wanda ya lashe gasar Cowes-Torquay a 1961.

Daga baya a cikin aikinsa, Du Cane ya shiga Fleet Air Arm . "Vosper boats for the services" (PDF). Flight. 16 January 1941. Retrieved 6 December 2017. A shekara ta 1964, an sanya shi Kwamandan Order of the British Empire (CBE). 

Du Cane ya mutu a ranar 31 ga Oktoba 1984, yana da shekaru 83, kuma an binne shi a teku.

 Manazarta 

Rukuni:Mutuwan 1984
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1901