Marmaduke Stalkartt

Marmaduke Stalkartt (1750 - 24 September 1805) was an English naval architect.

Life

Marmaduke Stalkartt was the fourth child of Hugh Stalkartt. 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'.^[1] It was reviewed appreciatively in The Critical Review^[2] and The Monthly Review.^[3]

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

References

1. Charles Lyon Chandler; Marion Vernon Brewington; Edgar Preston Richardson (1976). Philadelphia, port of history, 1609-1837. Philadelphia Maritime Museum. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-913346-02-0. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
2. Tobias George Smollett, ed. (1783). The Critical review, or, Annals of literature. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. pp. 364–73, 420–34. Retrieved 20 September 2012.
3. Ralph Griffiths, ed. (1782). The Monthly Review. Printed for R. Griffiths. pp. 444–56. Retrieved 20 September 2012.

External links

• Lars Bruzelius, Marmaduke Stalkartt