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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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)...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    Mount Batten (category Geography of Plymouth, Devon)
    outcrop of rock on a 600-metre (2000-ft) peninsula in Plymouth Sound, Devon, England, named after Sir William Batten (c.1600-1667), MP and Surveyor of the Navy;...
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    HMS Victory (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
    for the construction. The master shipwright in charge of construction was Edward Allin, son of Sir Joseph Allin, former Surveyor of the Navy. The keel...
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    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:...
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    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)...
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