The Surveyor of the Navy also known as Department of the Surveyor of the Navy and originally known as Surveyor and Rigger of the Navy was a former principal...

The post of Controller of the Navy (abbreviated as CofN) was originally created in 1859 when the Surveyor of the Navy's title changed to Controller of...

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's...

of Marine Causes he was Senior Commissioner of the board from 1564-1660 the Surveyor of the Navy, originally called Surveyor and Rigger of the Navy (1546-1660)...

designer who rose to be Surveyor of the Navy, the highest position in British naval architecture. He was born in 1700 the grandson of a John Williams who...

Duke of Kent was a proposed 170-gun line of battle ship allegedly designed by future Surveyor of the Navy Joseph Tucker in 1809. Such a vessel, if built...

designer to the Royal Navy who rose to be Surveyor of the Navy. Designing during the Napoleonic Wars, many of his ships took place in the critical battles:...

French ships during the War of Austrian Succession. In the next decade Thomas Slade (Surveyor of the Navy from 1755, along with co-Surveyor William Bately)...

His experiments with diagonal trusses in the construction of ships led to his appointment as Surveyor of the Navy in 1813, a position he held until 1835...

designer who rose to be Surveyor of the Navy. He was born around 1730. He is first recorded in the service of the Royal Navy as a Master Boat Builder...