Ships and Shipbuilders: Pioneers of Design and Construction

394 Pages·2010·14.32 MB·English

by  Fred M. Walker

The Cunard linerAquitania under construction at the Clydebank yard of John Brown & Co Ltd. (©
The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, G10689)

Copyright © Fred M Walker 2010
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Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1: Ship Design and Construction to 1800
Archimedes of Syracuse, 287–212 BC
John Napier of Merchiston, 1550–1617
Phineas Pett, 1570–1647
David Balfour, 1574–1634
Sir Anthony Deane, 1638–1721
Petr Alexeyevich Romanov, 1672–1725
Pierre Bouguer, 1698–1758
Blaise Ollivier, 1701–1746
Sir Thomas Slade, 1703–1771
Rene-Nicolas Levasseur, 1705–1784
Leonhard Euler, 1707–1783
Thomas Simpson, 1710–1761
Pafnuty Lvovich Tchebycheff, 1821–1894
James Thomson, 1822–1892
Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, 1721–1808
John Schanck, 1740–1823
Henrik Gerner, 1742–1787
George Atwood, 1745–1807
Marmaduke Stalkartt, 1750–1805
Jamsetjee Bomanjee Wadia, 1754–1821
Mark Beaufoy, 1764–1827
Sir Robert Seppings, 1767–1840
James Watt, 1736–1819
Joshua Humphreys, 1751–1838
Part 2: Iron and Steam 1800–1850
Patrick Miller, 1731–1815
William Symington, 1763–1831
Robert Fulton, 1765–1815
Henry Bell, 1767–1830
John Wood, 1788–1860
Peter Barlow, 1776–1862
Antoine Nicolas François Bonjean, 1778–1822
John Wilkinson, 1728–1810
Thomas Wilson, 1781–1873
Henry Eckford, 1775–1832
Sir William Symonds, 1782–1856
Sir William Fairbairn, 1789–1874
Robert Napier, 1791–1876
William Henry Webb, 1816–1899
Frederic Sauvage, 1786–1857
John Ericsson, 1803–1889
Sir Francis Pettit Smith, 1808–1874
Richard Green, 1803–1863
John Laird, 1805–1874
Sir Marc Brunel, 1769–1849
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1806–1859
Part 3: Naval Architecture Comes of Age 1850–1900
John Scott Russell, 1808–1882
Svend Foyn, 1809–1894
Alexander Stephen, 1795–1875
Rev Joseph Woolley, 1817–1889
Donald McKay, 1810–1880
William Froude, 1810–1879
Robert Edmund Froude, 1846–1924
Bruno Joannes Tideman, 1834–1883
William George Armstrong (Lord Armstrong of Cragside), 1810–1900
Sir Andrew Noble, 1831–1915
Stanislas-Charles-Henri Dupuy de Lôme, 1816–1885
William Wain, 1819–1882
William John Macquorn Rankine, 1820–1872
Charles Mitchell, 1820–1895
David Kirkaldy, 1820–1897
Thomas B Seath, 1820–1903
Andrei Alexandrovitch Popoff, 1821–1898
Sir Charles Mark Palmer, 1822–1907
William Pile, 1823–1873
Bernard Waymouth, 1824–1890
Hercules Linton, 1836–1900
Wilhelm Bauer, 1822–1875
Jakob Amsler-Laffon, 1823–1912
Frederick Kynaston Barnes, 1828–1908
Samuel Plimsoll, 1824–1898
John Elder, 1824–1869
Mrs Isabella Elder, 1828–1905
Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1824–1907
The Barnaby Dynasty
Alexander Carnegie Kirk, 1830–1892
Mackrow’s Naval Architect’s Pocket Book
Sir Edward J Reed, 1830–1906
Sir Edward J Harland, 1831–1895
James Howden, 1832–1913
Colin Archer, 1832–1921
George Wightwick Rendel, 1833–1902
Joseph Russell, 1834–1917
Alfred Thayer Mahan, 1840–1914
John Philip Holland, 1841–1914
Part 4: The World Wars 1900–1950
Sir Alfred Fernandez Yarrow, 1842–1932
Sir William Henry White, 1845–1913
Carl Gustaf Patrik de Laval, 1845–1913
Sir Philip Watts, 1846–1926
Nathaniel G Herreshoff, 1848–1938
Frank Prior Purvis, 1850–1940
George Lennox Watson, 1851–1904
Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, 1854–1931
Sir John Harvard Biles, 1854–1933
William Fife III, 1857–1944
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel, 1858–1913
Henry Alexander Mavor, 1858–1915
James Foster King, 1862–1947
Alexei Nicolaevitch Krylov, 1863–1945
Frederick Lobnitz, 1863–1932
David Watson Taylor, 1864–1940
Sir James Caird, 1864–1954
James Rennie Barnett, 1864–1965
Richard Oakley, 1906–1988
Oscar Kjellberg, 1870–1931
Sir Joseph Isherwood, 1870–1937
Robert MacGregor, 1873–1956
Guglielmo Marconi, 1874–1937
Shirley Brooks Ralston, 1874–1952
A P Møller, 1876–1965
Sir Westcott Stile Abell, 1877–1961
Sir Thomas Henry Havelock, 1877–1968
Sir William Wallace, 1881–1963
Marie-Augustin Augustin-Normand, 1881–1964
Sir James Lithgow, 1883–1952
Vladimir Ivanovitch Yourkevitch, 1885–1964
The Ayre Brothers of Burntisland
Henry J Kaiser, 1882–1967
Sir Maurice Edward Denny, 1886–1955
Sir James McFadyen McNeill, 1892–1964
Part 5: A Global Profession 1950–2000
William Hovgaard, 1857–1950
Anton Flettner, 1885–1961
Cuthbert Coulson Pounder, 1891–1982
Edmund Victor Telfer, 1897–1977
Hyman G Rickover, 1900–1986
Peter Du Cane, 1901–1984
Howard I Chapelle, 1901–1975
Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell, 1910–1999
William Avery Baker, 1911–1981
James J Henry, 1913–1986
Sir Iain Maxwell Stewart, 1916–1985
Ben Lexcen, 1936–1988
Further Reading