Word: skiffington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggestion of the Prime Minister. A knighthood went to Stephen Joseph Pigott, managing director of the John Brown shipyards where they were built. The award of Commander of the Order of the British Empire went to George Patterson (Cunard-White Star's chief naval architect) and Donald M. Skiffington (John Brown yard director). Honest Tommy Rankin, foreman of the riveters who put the Queen Mary together, became a member of the Order of the British Empire...
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