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Anthony Deane (shipwright)

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One of the first indications of the application to scientific principles to ship construction is found in Pepys' diary, which records that in 1666 "Mr. Deane . . . then fell to explain to me the manner of casting the draught of water which a ship will draw, beforehand, which is a secret the King and
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in October 1664 and appointed Deane as its master shipwright, elevating him from being Pett's assistant to his nominal equal. For Deane, the promotion meant that he would have a free hand in designing and constructing naval vessels, albeit at a smaller dockyard than the great Navy establishments of
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The method used by Mr. (afterwards Sir Anthony) Deane of calculating the displacement of ships is unknown; but it appears that about 1700 this was effected by dividing the body by equidistant sections, calculating the area of each and thence obtaining the displacement by some rough process of
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In 1672 Deane was promoted to become Commissioner at Portsmouth, thus becoming a member of the Navy Board. No longer responsible for shipbuilding at Portsmouth, he still was able to build several ships as a private contractor, mainly at Harwich but also at
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Deane was one of the earliest to apply scientific principles to the building of naval vessels, and between 1666 and 1675 he designed and built 25 vessels for the
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He married twice; firstly to Ann Prowse, a widow who bore him four sons and a daughter and secondly to Christian, the widow of Sir John Dawes, and mother of
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all admire in him; and he is the first that hath come to any certainty beforehand of foretelling the draught of water of a ship, before she is launched."
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of Harwich, he funded the construction of a new gaol and guildhall in the town. He was also an alderman of the
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A register of the scholars admitted into Merchant Taylors' School : from A. D. 1562 to 1874
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Goodwin, Peter (1998). "The Influence of Iron in Ship Construction: 1660 to 1830".
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The manuscripts of J. Eliot Hodgkin, esq., F.S.A., of Richmond, Surrey
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Harwich Dockyard was closed in 1668, following the end of the
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Dictionary of National Biography entry for Sir Anthony Deane
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The Registers of St. Olave, Hart Street, London, 1563-1700
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R. McCutcheon, "Pepys in the Newspapers of 1679–1680"
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The history and antiquities of Harwich and Dovercourt
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Anthony Dean (mayor)

Godfrey Kneller
FRS
English House of Commons
Harwich
Stow-on-the-Wold
Gloucestershire
Christopher Pett
Woolwich Dockyard
Samuel Pepys
Navy Board
Harwich Dockyard
Royal Navy
Rupert
Francis
Roebuck
Resolution
Swiftsure
Harwich
quadrature
Second Anglo-Dutch War
Portsmouth Dockyard
HMS Royal James
hull
Charles II
1719 Establishment
Rotherhithe
knighted
Victualling Accounts

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