Ernest Cox

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Ernest Frank Guelph Cox (born March 12, 1883 in Wolverhampton , † 1959 in Torquay ) was an English engineer and entrepreneur .

Live and act

As co-owner and sole manager of the company Cox & Danks in Rosyth , he developed new techniques for salvaging sunken ships and applied them for the first time to the German fleet sunk in Scapa Flow on an industrial scale. With the wreck of the large cruiser SMS Hindenburg in August 1930, he managed to salvage the largest ship ever lifted.

In his time he was considered the most important expert in this field and was therefore commissioned by the Royal Navy in 1932 with the (ultimately unsuccessful) recovery of the aircraft carrier submarine HMS M2 . He was the only private person who ever owned a complete (albeit submerged) fleet of 72 warships.

literature

  • Tony Booth: Tony Cox's Navy. Salvaging the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow 1924-1931 . Pen & Sword Books, London 2005, ISBN 1-8441-5181-6 .
  • Ian L. Buxton: Metal Industries. Shipbreaking at Rosyth and Charlestown . World Ship Society, Kendall 1992, p. 104.
  • Gerald Bowman: The Man Who Bought a Navy. The Story of the World's Greatest Salvage Achievement at Scapa Flow . Harrap, London 2002 (unchanged reprint of the London 1964 edition)
  • Joseph N Gores: Marine Salvage. The Unforgiving Business of No Cure, No Pay . Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1971, ISBN 0-7153-5454-X (preface by Willard Bascom).

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personal data
SURNAME Cox, Ernest
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cox, Ernest Frank Guelph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English engineer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolverhampton
DATE OF DEATH 1959
Place of death Torquay