John Eyde

John Eyde

John Eyde was the talented Chief Clerk in the Surveyor of the Navy's Office during the 19th century. He invented a new means of construction for wooden warships and produced the detail for the Surveyor William Symonds's many designs. Together he and Symonds created larger and larger wooden warships for the Royal Navy, which were able not only to defeat an enemy by weight of fire (as the Navy had long been able to do) but also to pursue them and force battle.

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* [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26893?docPos=18 Biography] of Symonds by Andrew Lambert on the Dictionary of National Biography, with details on Eyde


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