Frederick G. Creed

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Frederick George Creed (1871–1957) was a Canadian inventor, who worked in the field of telecommunications, and played an early role in the development of SWATH vessels, The CCGS Frederick G. Creed, a SWATH vessel, is named after him.

Creed was born in Mill Village, Nova Scotia. At age 15 he became a Morse code operator. He travelled to Peru and began research into the teleprinter, a machine to transmit electrical signals which would change into printed words. Versions of his machine were accepted by the British Post Office in 1902. From 1909 he was resident in the London Borough of Croydon and eventually formed Creed & Company in Britain, incorporated in 1922.

The acronym "SWATH" (Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull) was coined in 1973 by U. S. Navy technocrats who promote its use, rather than "semi-submerged" ship or catamaran, to distinguish this concept from conventional catamarans.