Designers and builders of ships, from the steamboat and the clipper to the greatest ocean liners and warships. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the person a naval architect, ship designer or builder. It excludes shipping magnates and submarine inventors. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
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Wikipedia: Robert Fulton
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Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765, February 24, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world's first commercially successful steamboat, the North River Steamboat (also known as Clermont).
Donald McKay (Wikipedia)
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Donald McKay (September 4, 1810, September 20, 1880) was a Nova Scotian-born American designer and builder of sailing ships, famed for his record-setting extreme clippers.
William Francis Gibbs (Wikipedia)
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William Francis Gibbs (August 24, 1886, September 6, 1967) was an American naval architect of the mid-twentieth century.
Henri Dupuy de Lôme (Wikipedia)
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Stanislas Charles Henri Dupuy de Lôme (French pronunciation: [stanislɑ ʃaʁl ɑ̃ʁi dypɥij d(ə) lom]; 15 October 1816-1 February 1885) was a French naval architect.
Thomas Andrews (Wikipedia)
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Thomas Andrews Jr. (7 February 1873-15 April 1912) was a British businessman and shipbuilder, who was managing director and head of the drafting department of the shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff in Belfast, Ireland.
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