Evidences have recently been given of a strong desire on the part of many engaged in the shipbuilding and engineering industries of the Tyne and Wear for the founding of a Chair of Naval Architecture in some educational institution in that district. Along with this movement a desire has been shown for the establishment of an Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders such as has been so long carried on successfully in the Clyde district. Definite steps are about to be taken for the realisation of these important objects, and doubtless no great time will elapse before they are accomplished.
List of Papers and lectures dealing with scientific problems in shipbuilding, to which readers desiring fuller acquaintance with the technique and details of the subjects are referred:—
The Progress of Shipbuilding in England: Westminster Review, January, 1881.
History of Naval Architecture. Lecture delivered by Mr Wm. John at Barrow-in-Furness: Iron, Dec. 8th, 1882.
DISPLACEMENT AND CARRYING CAPABILITY.
On a Method of Obtaining the Desired Displacement in Designing Ships, by Mr R. Zimmerman: Trans. Inst. N.A., vol. xxiv, 1883.
On Freeboard, by Mr Benjamin Martell: Trans. Inst. N.A., vol. xv., 1874.
On the Load Draught of Steamers, by Mr W. W. Rundell: Trans. Inst. N.A., vol. xv., 1873: vol. xv., 1874; and vol. xvi., 1875.
On the Load Line of Steamers, by Mr John Wigham Richardson: Trans. Inst. N.A., vol. xix., 1878.