Word: australes
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Dates: during 1884-1884
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...Engineering, and a member of the Council of the Institution of Naval Architects. He has had great experience in the design and construction of war ships for the British and foreign navies, and also of mercantile vessels. He investigated the causes of the disasters which befell the Daphne and Austral; and upon his evidence the rulings were based at the official inquiries in both cases. The new professor is the first who has been appointed to a university chair in Great Britain on account of his attainments in the science of naval architecture...