The name "Dracone" (Latin for "dragon") was an overt acknowledgement that they got the idea from Herbert's novel.

Historians will note that the first winner of the Gravel Roc at the Roc d’Azur was an Italian by the name of Guido Dracone, who was completely surprised by his victory.

Beginning in 1958 the British Dunlop company began to produce and sell Herbert's idea, as the Dracone Barge.

One of the special statutes classifies the man without a home as “more dangerous than the asp, dragon, lynx, or basilisk” (atrocior aspide, dracone, lynce, et basilico).

One of the special statutes classifies the man without a home as “more dangerous than the asp, dragon, lynx, or basilisk” (atrocior aspide, dracone, lynce, et basilico).