Marmaduke Stalkartt
English shipwright
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Marmaduke Stalkartt (1750 – 24 September 1805) was an English shipwright.
Marmaduke Stalkartt | |
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| Born | 1750 |
| Died | September 24, 1805 (aged 54–55) Calcultta |
| Occupation | naval architect |
| Notable work | Naval architecture |
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Life
Marmaduke Stalkartt was the fourth child of Mary Burchett and Hugh Stalkartt.[1] After presumably serving an apprenticeship at Deptford Dockyard, he was sent to India in 1796 to establish shipyards to build men-of-war in teak.
Stalkartt's Naval architecture (1781) was divided into seven books: 'Of Whole-Moulding'; 'Of the Yacht'; 'Of the Sloop'; 'Of the Forty-Four-Gun-Ship'; 'Of the Seventy-Four-Gun-Ship'; 'Of the Cutter, and Ending of the Lines'; and 'Of the Frigate'.[2] It was reviewed appreciatively in The Critical Review[3] and The Monthly Review.[4]
A copy originally purchased by George, Prince of Wales in 1781 is held by the Royal Collections Trust, one the first books he led a subscription list for. A further copy, identically bound in a cover decorated with gold embossed nautical images, was owned by King George III, and is held by the British Library.[5]
Stalkartt died on 24 September 1805 in Calcultta.[1]
Works
- Naval architecture, or, The rudiments and rules of ship building: exemplified in a series of draughts and plans: with observations sending to the further improvement of that important art, 1781. Google Books
