Notes upon losses at Sea, by Prof. Francis Elgar

Notes Upon Losses at Sea
Professor Francis Elgar (1845-1909)

Francis Elgar was born in Portsmouth into a family who had long been connected with Portsmouth Dockyard. He was apprenticed to the Dockyard’s master shipwright at the age of fourteen and remained in the Royal Navy until he was 26. At the age of 19 he was sent to the Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering to be trained in the science of shipbuilding and propulsion where he excelled. He held high office in many companies during his lifetime and was appointed the first ever professor of Naval Architecture. His paper, Notes Upon Losses at Sea was a careful analysis of the more dangerous causes of disaster to merchant shipping.

67 stitched loose pages. Paper given at the 27th session of the Institution of Naval Architects, Liverpool, 1886.
Front page inscribed ’73’ and top right hand corner; blue number 13[?] partially erased. Back cover has black ‘finger prints’ on it and a small piece missing from lower left corner of back page. Inked margin marks on page 21.

67 pages
B&W, tables
225 mm x 282 mm (approx. 8.75 in x 11 in)
1886, Institution of Naval Architects