Ships and Shipbuilders

摘要

Many members will have enjoyed reading Fred Walker's pen portraits of pioneer naval architects in RINA Affairs. This was, however, just the hors d'oeuvre, what we are now treated to is a full banquet, adding many more names to make a compendium of 135 illustrious men and one woman who have contributed to the evolution of ships and shipbuilding up to 2000.rnNot all are those we would class as naval architects - there are also mathematicians, scientists, shipowners, industrialists, naval officers and marine engineers - even a head of state (Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia). Some names will be familiar like James Watt and William Froude and nearer our day, Hyman Rickover, others less so.