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Fredrik Henrik Chapman was born at Nya Varvet, the royal dockyards in Gothenburg, on 9 September 1721, the son of Thomas Chapman, an English naval officer (born 1679 in Yorkshire) who had moved to Sweden in 1715 and joined the Swedish Navy in 1716.
Like many who rose to the pinnacle of the design of British sailing warships, Thomas Slade began as a shipwright in the Royal Dockyards. His uncle Benjamin Slade was Master Shipwright at Plymouth Dockyard (a master shipwright was responsible for all ship construction and repair at the dockyard in which he served).
The British shipbuilding industry is a prime example of this with its industries suffering badly from the 1960s. In the early 1970s British yards still had the capacity to build all types and sizes of merchant ships but today they have been reduced to a small number specialising in defence contracts, luxury yachts and repair work.
The Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths and Structural Workers (ASB) was a trade union in the United Kingdom. Many of its members worked in shipbuilding, in which industry it was the leading trade union, while over time it also developed strength in engineering and construction.
William McPherson Rice was born in Portsea, Hampshire on May 1, 1796, the son of William McPherson Rice, a ships mate and Ann Stigant. Rice senior had seen action aboard HMS Blonde during the American Revolutionary War. [1]
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Thomas was possibly the second son of Robert and Mary Pollard who was Christened at St Clements Hastings on 4 August 1731(vital. England births and christenings) Robert was possibly the shipwright who had contracted a lease from Hastings corporation for 15 years in 1727 (East Sussex record office HAS/E/A/B/14. and later in 1747 is recorded as a shipwright of Hastings buying oak trees to the ...
A shipwright and the main buildings of the Amsterdam Admiralty by Pierre Fouquet (1729-1800) The "Oostelijke Eilanden" in Amsterdam on a map by Gerrit de Broen, dated ~1782. John May Sr or Jan Maij (1694 – 1779) was an English shipwright from Chatham who served from 1758-1779 as Master Shipbuilder of the Amsterdam Admiralty. [1]