Sir Anthony Dean ( born Anthony Dean or Deane ; 1638 - 1721 ) is an English shipbuilder of the last quarter of the 17th century and a member of the English Parliament .
| Anthony Dean | |
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| English Anthony Dean or Deane | |
Portrait of Anthony Dean Gottfried Kneller , 1690 | |
| Date of Birth | 1638 |
| Date of death | 1721 |
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| Awards and prizes | member of the Royal Society of London |
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Biography
In 1673 , as an alderman of Harwich, he financed the construction of a new prison and city hall . [1] Dean also was an alderman of the City of London . [2] He and his patron Samuel Pepys were members of parliament from Harwich in the third parliament of Charles II (who acted from March 6, 1678 and was part of the Royal Parliament).
The main literary work of the master, who laid many of the foundations of shipbuilding, as a science was the "Doctrine of Maritime Architecture" (1670).
In 1666, the ship's master Anthony Dean, for the first time, calculated the future draft of the battleship and ordered that the ports of the ship be cut through on the stocks . After 20 years, under his leadership in the English fleet, this practice has become permanent.
Dean was the tutor of Peter the Great during his stay and study of the latter at Deptford .
He was married twice, from his first marriage he had four sons, from the second - a son and a daughter.
Ships built by Anthony Dean
- HMS Rupert (26. 1. 1666), 66 guns
- HMS Resolution (6. 12. 1667), 70 guns
- HMS James Royal (1671), 100 guns
- HMS Greyhound (1672), 16 guns
- HMS Charles Royal (1673), 100 guns
- HMS Sodalis or Suadades (1673), 16 guns
- HMS Harwich (1674), 70 guns
- HMS James Royal (1675), 100 guns
- HMS Sapphire (1675), 32 guns
- HMS Lark (1675), 18 guns
- HMS James' Galley (1676), 30 guns
- and etc.
See also
- Pett, Finias (senior)
Notes
- ↑ Coller, Duffield William (1861) The People's History of Essex. Google Books. Retrieved 6 April 2008.
- ↑ Carr, Cecil Thomas (ed.) (1970) Select Charters of Trading Companies, AD 1530-1707. Google Books. Retrieved 6 April 2008.