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[bleedingcoffee42]

Lewis Nixon has a huge spread in the Boston Post in 1908, even Stanhope get a picture featured.

[sectumsempra4enemies]

Februrary 7

Today, 151 years ago in 1873, a very special human being was born in Comber, Northern Ireland. He was kind, intelligent, diligent and a true hero until the bitter end, sacrificing his life for the safety of others. He was an extraordinary shipbuilder, loving husband and father with a promising future ahead of him. His short but meaningful life ended when he was just 39 years old, but today we will remember and celebrate this beautiful man and think of all the wonderful things he has done. The world would be a better place if there were more men like him.

Happy birthday to the one and only:

Thomas Andrews

You are still loved and will never be forgotten.

[scotianostra]

On March 8th 1824, John Elder, the Scottish marine engineer and shipbuilder, was born in Glasgow.

The son of the famous marine engineer David Elder, John was educated at The High School of Glasgow and attended classes at Glasgow University. In 1852 he became a partner in Randolph, Elder & Co, millwrights, which sought his expertise to enable them to branch out into marine engineering and in 1860 acquired the Govan Old Shipyard. Three years later, the firm moved to the new Fairfield Shipyard, employing 4,000 men there. In 1868 Elder became sole owner of the business.

Elder's greatest achievement was the development from the 1850s of the marine compound engine, which consumed far lower quantities of coal than other engines of the day. Refinements in the design allowed further reductions in fuel consumption, greater power and a diminution of friction in the firm's marine engines, all resulting in greater efficiency and performance. His experiments in developing the triple and the quadruple expansion engines were to have a profound influence on marine engine design after his death.

Following her husband`s untimely death, Isabella Elder used her wealth and status to support many charitable causes and she was active in promoting education for women. She also financed the creation of Elder Park and in 1885 gifted the 37 acre site to the people of Govan. Her statue also stands in the park, within a walled garden.

More on John Elder here http://www.engineeringhalloffame.org/profile-elder.html

[winnix85]

Some more obscure facts about Lewis Nixon the shipbuilder and politics in 1920s

The other day, I found this piece in old newspapers that Lew’s grandmother was sitting in the box of the governor of New York Alfred E. Smith with Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt in a Democratic convention compaigning for the election of governor of New York. I thought this was strange. I knew that Lew’s grandfather was briefly the leader of Tammany Hall, but very briefly, since he was tasked with the mission of cleaning up the corrupt Tammany Hall and failed miserably.

Alfred E. Smith was probably one of the most competent governor of New York in history, and he stayed in office for nearly the entire 1920s. His political legacy included eight-hour day for women and children, minimum wages, to grant state pensions to widows with children so they don’t have to be sent to orphanage if the mother can’t find a job to support the family. (Alfred Smith himself was a child of a widow and he was dropped out of school at age 14 to work at a fish market)

It turns out that Lew’s grandfather was a long-time friend with Alfred E. Smith. They were allies since 1918. When Lewis Nixon died in 1940, Alfred E. Smith was his pallbearer.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was a protege of  Alfred E. Smith. He started compaigning for Smith since 1918 NY governor election, and worked for Smith’s every elections since then. However they turned against each other in fighting for the nomination of 1932 presidential election. Lewis Nixon the shipbuilder backed Alfred E. Smith everytime, and even supported him to run againt FDR in the 1936 presidential election.

1918, FDR first spoke for Alfred E. Smith (in the same news, Lew’s grandmother accepted the chairmanship of the Alfred E. Smith's Women's Campaign Committee of Greater New York. In the state of New York, women had the right to vote since 1918). In this election, Alfred E. Smith beat the incumbent governor Charles S. Whitman.

Actually, the incumbent governor Charles S. Whitman was the one who gave Doris away at her wedding with Stanhope in 1917.

In 1919, Lew’s grandfather was appointed by Alfred Smith as the superintendent of public works.

Shown below are a collection of newspaper clippings of Lewis Nixon throwing dinner parties for Alfred Smith:

By the way, in 1926 seven-yr old Lew participated in a model yacht competition. Grandpa browbeat him to name his boat “Mayor Walker”. That’s Jimmy Walker, another protege of Alfred E. Smith.

In 1928, Lewis Nixon, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Jimmy Walker were all invited to the wedding of Alfred Smith’s daughter Katherine.

Therefore, I believe lil Lew did indeed know FDR, because FDR was not only a close colleague of his grandfather’s besty, but also a immediate neighbor, for the Roosevelts lived at the opposite door to the Nixons on East 65th St. 

FDR lived here and worked from here. This townhouse served as the compaign headquarter of Alfred E. Smith because FDR can’t walk to the actual headquarter on madison street.

Lew’s grandmother was still socializing with Eleanor Roosevelt in 1930 at least. 

However, the Nixons sided with Alfred E. Smith when he and FDR fought for the Democratic nomination for the 1932 presidential election. FDR won.

Lew’s grandfather was still promoting Alfred Smith in the 1936 election, but Smith didn’t run this time.

Smith vehemently critisized FDR’s new deal. However, he was one of the first American politicians who publicly warned against the evil of Hitler and Nazis in early 1933 (mind you, in 1933, Hitler was still a fasionable strong man in public view)

Smith came to Roosevelt’s defense as the president sought to amend the country’s neutrality laws (i.e. to sell arms to Britain and France after they declared war on Germany).

Alfred Smith said Roosevelt was “is so obviously right, so obviously on the side of common sense”.

In 1944, when both men had only months to live, an acquaintance asked Smith what he thought of Roosevelt, who was running for a fourth term as president of the United States, Smith said “he was the kindest man who ever lived, but don’t even get in his way”.

[rhk111sblog]

The Shipbuilder "PT PAL Indonesia" just laid down the Keel of the second of the two new Landing Docks (LD) for the Philippine Navy (PN) recently to officially start its Construction. The said Ceremony was accompanied by an Official Survey by the PN's Technical Inspection and Acceptance Committee (TIAC).

On a Side Note, I just realized that the two previous Tarlac-class LDs continue to be armed only with .50 cal. Heavy Machine Guns (HMG) up now, I think the PN should at least prioritize Self-Defense Countermeasures and Armaments for it.

I suggest they use the same ones used on the Jose Rizal class Guided Missile Frigates, the C-Guard Decoy Launchers and Simbad-RC Surface to Air Missile (SAM) Systems for Commonality …

Here is the Link to the Article about the Keel Laying on the Jane’s Website: https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/pt-pal-lays-down-keel-for-second-modified-variant-of-tarlac-class-amphibious-ship

[defencestar]

Indian Navy: Larsen & Toubro teams up with Spain’s Navantia for P75(I) submarine programme

Larsen & Toubro-Navantia agreement for Navy’s P75(I) submarine: India’s leading defence manufacturer and engineering giant Larsen & Toubro has signed a Teaming Agreement (TA) with Spanish naval shipbuilder Navantia on Monday (July 10) for the purpose of submission of a techno-commercial bid for the Indian Navy’s prestigious P75 (India) submarine program. Project 75 (I) requires the Indian bidder…

[shrikeseams]

Silm time travel fixit fic where Curufin is spat out into his younger self fairly early in YoT, and when his efforts to solve the Noldor's political/ Melkor problems bear no fruit... he just fucks off to Alqualonde to apprentice as a ship-builder, because it's a concrete and fixable future problem.

[scavengedluxury]

Óbuda Shipyard machine shop, 1926. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

[upennmanuscripts]

Today's manuscript is LJS 473, a 15th century Italian treatise on ships and shipbuilding. It includes information on cartography, construction and use of the compass, types of ships, and meteorology and astronomy for use in navigation, and has two maps of the earth - one of the earth and the spheres surrounding it (representing the sky and the Zodiac), and the other that divides the earth into temperate zones (hotter around the middle and colder on the ends).

🔗:

[lindahall]

Donald McKay – Scientist of the Day

Donald McKay, a Canadian/American shipbuilder, died Sep. 20, 1880, at age 70. 

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[lupoteodoro]

Did you know that Damian Lewis' great-grandfather, Alfred Yarrow, was a renowned British shipbuilder and existed almost in the same era as Lewis Nixon the shipbuilder? They must have had some interaction right？

[lonestarbattleship]

Launch ceremony for USS Houston (CA-30) at the Newport News Shipyard.

She was sponsored by Elisabeth Holcombe. In attendance is Mary Ellen Bute (maid of honor) and Charlotte Williams (special guest).

Date: September 7, 1929

Naval History and Heritage Command: 19-LC-44089

University of Houston Library: uhlib_1981_001_do8873pz043_0001_ac, uhlib_1981_001_do8873pz03r_0001_ac, uhlib_1981_001_do11268387w_0001_ac, uhlib_1981_001_do6040xr43k_0001_ac, uhlib_1981_001_do84988k149_0001_ac

[polutrope]

Insufferable

"You should not hold it so," says a voice at Círdan's back. "Here, let me show you."

Círdan grimaces. Footsteps follow, soft and precise as a dancer's. Daeron does dance, of course, and well, though the nimbleness of his feet is nothing to the splendour of his voice.

Such a voice.

How can such a voice, the very beauty of the world bodied forth in sound, yet speak with such haughty airs and rouse such rancour in Círdan's heart?

"Please, minstrel," says Círdan, withdrawing his chisel from Daeron's grasping hand. "Keep to your craft and I will keep to mine.”

A drabble for @sindarweek, inspired by the S02E02 Daeron name-drop in Rings of Power. On AO3.

[scotianostra]

On 6th June 1838 Thomas Glover was born in Fraserburgh.

For the first six years of his life Glover lived at number 15 Commerce Street in Fraserburgh. His father was the chief coastguard in Fraserburgh, he was English and his mother was A Scot from Fordyce, Banffshire. His father was formerly an Officer in the Royal Navy. Thomas Blake Glover had 6 brothers and a sister. The house no longer remains because it was destroyed after a bombing by the German Luftwaffe Air Force during World War 2.

In 1851 the family moved to a Victorian Home in Bridge of Don in Aberdeen.  Upon leaving school Thomas Blake Glover started work for a trading company and was soon travelling the World, becoming a successful trader in weapons and ships. His travels took him to Japan with one of his brothers when they both worked for the tea merchant Jardine, Matheson & Co. during the late 1850s and early 1860s.

During his time in Japan Thomas Glover achieved a great deal. He helped the Samurai to overthrow their military leader, the Shogun. This action helped to restore The Emperor to his throne. This earned Glover the nicknames The Broch Samurai and The Scottish Samurai.

Thomas Glover was also a key part in the industrialisation of Japan. After commissioning three warships to be built at Aberdeen shipyards (including the Jho Sho Maru which was their first iron-clad warship) for the Japanese Navy he formed his own shipbuilding company. This developed into the company Mitsubishi after his bankruptcy in 1870. He remained in the company as a Consultant. He also introduced the first trains to Japan and the first mechanised coal mine. He owned the Takashima Coal Mine and helped found the Kirin Beer Company.

Along with other foreign residents they built and funded the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral at the Minami Yamate hillside in 1862.

While living in Nagasaki in 1863 he built a house on the Minami Yamate hillside which overlooks Nagasaki Harbour. This still remains as the oldest Western style building in Japan. Over 2 million people visit it each year. It is known as Glover House and boasts a stunning garden. It is Japan’s top tourist attraction.

Plans were announced in 2015 for the Aberdeen family home of the Glovers to be turned into a £2m research hub, if this happens it could turn Aberdeen into a mecca for curious Japanese visitors, but sadly I can find no new info on this. However Fraserburgh unveiled a statue of Glover, as a young boy launching a model ship, last June.

[winnix85]

I just noticed that Alfred E. Smith was the pallbearer of Lew's grandfather.

Alfred E. Smith was a big name in the Democratic party. He was the first Roman Catholic to be nominated for president of the United States but he lost to Herbert Hoover in the 1928 election, largely due to anti-Catholic sentiment.

Smith sought the 1932 Democratic presidential nomination but was defeated by Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was his close ally and protégé. After that, his relationship with FDR went sour. Smith became highly critical of Roosevelt's New Deal policies.

However, he reconciled with FDR during ww2. Smith was an early and vocal critic of the Nazi regime in Germany (i.e. as early as 1933) Smith enthusiastically supported American military involvement in World War II. Although he was not asked by Roosevelt to play any role in the war effort, Smith was an active and vocal proponent of FDR's attempts to amend the Neutrality Act in order to allow "Cash and Carry" sales of war equipment to be made to the British.

[thunderstruck9]

Adam Kennedy (British, 1988), Dry Dock Construction. Mixed media on canvas, 88 x 127 cm. The Fleming Collection, London