Leonard Peskett
Leonard Peskett, OBE (1861-1924)[1] was the Cunard Line's Senior Naval Architect and Designer[2][3] and the designer of sister ships RMS Mauretania and RMS Lusitania[4], as well as their 'half-sister,' RMS Aquitania,[5] and the RMS Carmania.
Peskett came to Cunard in 1884 from H.M. Dockyard, where he had been an apprentice shipwright. He remained at Cunard until his death in 1924.[1]
He is the author of the paper "The design of steamships from the owner's point of view," published in Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects, London, 1914 [1][6]
References
- ^ a b c Christie's Auction House
- ^ CUNARD LINE ARCHIVES, UK National Archives
- ^ The age of Cunard: a transatlantic history 1839-2003, Daniel Allen Butler. p. 156
- ^ The United States in the First World War: an encyclopedia, Anne Cipriano Venzon and Paul L. Miles, p. 357
- ^ CUNARDER RMS AQUITANIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
- ^ Cited by Transactions of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Vol. 29, p. 269