Streamlining At Sea

Now this is some serious seagoing style.  Dieselpunk posted this item about Anthony Fokker's (of German aircraft fame) streamlined yacht, the Q.E.D.  An item in Time magazine from October 16, 1939 described the fate of the vessel. 

The 70-ton, 26-knot motor yacht Q. E. D., streamlined startler designed by and built for Dutch Airman Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker in his slickest airflow style, sank in the Hudson River near Yonkers, N. Y. Honeymooning on the borrowed boat were a bride and groom of five hours, friends of Fokker, when a fire started in an ornamental fireplace in an after cabin, spread quickly, driving honeymooners and crew overboard. At the launching a year ago, Designer Fokker mused: "I hope it will be obsolete within two years. . . . That is good. That is progress. Today there are too many yachts that outlive their owners. . . ."