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Bryce Mortlock

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De Havilland Marine

De Havilland Marine's designers were headed by naval architect Alan Payne, designer of Australia's first America's Cup (1962 America's Cup) challengers Gretel and Gretel II.

Elias Martin

During his time with Schultz, he was hired by the naval architect Fredrik Henrik af Chapman to design ship ornaments.

Eugene McAllaster

A distinguished Seattle, Washington, naval architect and engineer, he is most famous for designing the historic Seattle fireboat Duwamish.

Joel White

Joel White (1930–1997), the son of author E. B. White and New Yorker Magazine editor Katharine Sergeant Angell White, was a renowned U.S. naval architect known for his classic and beautiful designs including the W-Class of boats.

Longitudinal framing

Longitudinal framing (also called the Isherwood system after British naval architect Sir Joseph Isherwood, who patented it in 1906) is a method of ship construction in which large, widely spaced transverse frames are used in conjunction with light, closely spaced longitudinal members.

Museum of Lake Minnetonka

In 1905, TCRT commissioned naval architect Royal C. Moore of Wayzata, Minnesota to design each of these identical vessels to be 70' long, 14'10" wide, and draw 5.5' of water. Each would be powered by a single coal-fired boiler and triple-expansion steam engine, with a single 46" screw for propulsion.

Yokosuka Naval District

In 1866, the Tokugawa shogunate government established the Yokosuka Seisakusho, a military arsenal and naval base, with the help of foreign engineers, including the French naval architect Léonce Verny.


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Anton Romako

His brother, Joseph von Romako, was a Naval Architect-Inspector of Austro-Hungarian Navy.

Battle of Pulo Aura

Some of the party had influential careers in the Navy, including the naval architect James Inman who sailed on Warley, and John Franklin, who later became a polar explorer.

Charles Dickinson

Charles Dickinson West (1847–1908), Irish mechanical engineer and naval architect

François Coulomb the Younger

François Coulomb the Younger (La Ciotat, 1691 - Toulon, July 1751) was a French naval architect, son of François Coulomb the Elder.

George Rendel

George Wightwick Rendel (1833–1902), British engineer, and naval architect, son of James Meadows Rendel

Greek corvette Loudovikos

Loudovikos was a corvette of the Hellenic Navy built in 1838 at the Poros Naval Shipyard, designed by naval architect Georgios Tombazis.

Gunboat

The majority of these were vessels developed from the 1770s and onwards by the naval architect Fredrik Henrik af Chapman for the Swedish Archipelago Fleet.

Henry Saxby

Saxby was born in London and his father, Stephen Martin Saxby, was of some renown himself, as a naval architect, inventor and weather forecaster.

James Flannery

James Fortescue Flannery (1851–1943), English engineer, naval architect, and politician

Jardine Whyte

From 1907 he worked as a consulting engineer and Naval Architect in San Francisco.

Katharine Sergeant Angell White

Her other son, Joel White, was a naval architect and boatbuilder who owned Brooklin Boatyard in Brooklin, Maine.

Lam Nguon Tanh

Rear Admiral Lam served the U.S. Defense Department (Department of Navy) for more than 20 years as a naval architect at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia.

Ottoman ship Mahmudiye

She was constructed by the naval architect Mehmet Kalfa and the naval engineer Mehmet Efendi on the order of Mahmud II (reigned between 1808–1839) at Tersane-i Amire, the Imperial Shipyard, on the Golden Horn in Constantinople.

Passaic-class monitor

Naval architect and engineer John Ericsson designed the Passaic-class warships, drawing upon lessons learned from the first USS Monitor, which he also designed.

Patrick Miller of Dalswinton

He attempted to interest various European navies in his design for a super warship, but only Sweden showed any notable interest; their great naval architect Chapman called it the "English (sic) sea-spook".

Roue

William James Roué (1879–1970), naval architect famous for his design of the Bluenose fishing schooner

Stern

In 1817 the British naval architect Sir Robert Seppings first introduced the concept of the round or circular stern.

STS Leeuwin II

It was built to a design by local naval architect Len Randell by Australian Shipbuilding Industries Pty Ltd (now BAE Systems Australia) and launched on 2 August 1986.

Wilfrid Grigson

Grigson and his wife had two children: Christopher Grigson, a respected engineer naval architect, and Claudia, who later married Henry Chilver.

William Burgess

William Starling Burgess (1878–1947), American yacht designer, aviation pioneer, and naval architect

WinTech Racing

The company's boat designs come from Klaus Filter, a shell designer and naval architect who was the former chairman of the International Rowing Federation's Materials Commission.

Zymen Danseker

Finding himself in the service of the Pacha, he soon became the chief naval architect for the Bey of Algiers teaching Algerian shipwrights how to build and use the larger European "round ships" as opposed to the ancient rowed galleys.