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Thornycroft, John Isaac

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Thornycroft, John Isaac (1843–1928)

English naval architect.

A draughtsman in Palmer's shipbuilding yard in Glasgow, he studied under William Kelvin and William Rankine at the university, and later worked for John Elder, marine engineer. He established at Chiswick (1866) a yard for launches and torpedo-craft and built the first torpedo-boat of the Royal Navy 1877. In 1906 he moved his boatyard to Woolston, Southampton. He supplied the Admiralty with coastal motorboats during World War I; in 1893 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was knighted in 1902.

He was born in Rome, eldest son of Thomas and Mary Thornycroft, sculptors.



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