Career
With Lorne Currie as helmsman and fellow crewmembers John Gretton and Algernon Maudslay, Hope took first places in both the race of the.5 to 1 ton class and the Open class. Hope designed a variety of yachts, as well as the Fairy One Design for the North of Ireland Yacht Club, international canoes and Thames Raters. He was appointed naval architect to the King of the Belgians.
In 1915 Hope designed the AD Flying Boat for the British Admiralty"s Air Department and his hull designs were used by a number of British flying boats in the 1920s including the Fairey Titania, largest flying boat in the world at the time.