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HMNB Devonport

Edmund Dummer a Naval Officer travelled the West Country searching for an area where a dockyard could be built; he sent in two estimates for sites, one in Plymouth, Cattewater and one further along the coast, on the Hamoaze, a section of the River Tamar, in the parish of Stoke Damerel.

Scott Russell Aqueduct

It is named after the Scottish naval engineer John Scott Russell who discovered the soliton or solitary wave near Bridge 11 on the Union Canal where a plaque in his memory can be found.


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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.

Rhina, Hesse

Leopold Katzenstein (born 23 July 1843 in Rhina, died 3 December 1915 in New York City), Marine architect, Naval engineer, Inventor

Scott Russell

John Scott Russell (1808–1882), known as J. Scott Russell, Scottish naval engineer