Frederick Kynaston Barnes

Frederick Kynaston Barnes (born February 11, 1828 in Pembroke , † August 29, 1908 in Llandrindod Wells ) was a British naval engineer.

Life

Frederick K. Barnes, born in 1828, is one of the great ship designers in the United Kingdom. The young Barnes first completed his apprenticeship as a shipbuilder at the shipyard in his native Pembroke. In 1848 he was selected as one of the first students for the School of Mathematics and Shipbuilding founded by Joseph Woolley that same year. His outstanding math skills soon became apparent, and in his third year he was awarded the Admiralty Prize. Barnes graduated with honors in 1852 and began working in the British Admiralty's Design Office in 1853, working with Nathaniel Barnaby under the direction of Edward James Reed . Their joint work led, under the sponsorship of John Scott-Russell, in 1864 to the establishment of the Royal School of Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering. Reed, Barnaby and Barnes recognized the design - related disadvantage of the low level of stability of the emerging monitor warship type and after the sinking of the HMS Monarch in bad weather in 1870, Barnes dealt intensively with questions of ship stability . He was the first to describe the correct determination of the metacentric height as a function of the heel angle . For the first time he found a method for calculating the moments of the submerging and submerging wedges of a ship, which was used for many years to calculate British warships, which was easy to use in Attwood's formula. In addition, he researched the expected behavior of ships with partially filled inner compartments and was the first to deal with the effect of the free surfaces . After Barnaby became Reed's successor, they were both responsible for the design of most of the warships of that period. After the reorganization of the design office, Barnaby and Barnes worked in the administrative office of the naval shipyards and in 1885 Barnes took over the management of the outgoing Barnaby. As early as 1886, however, Barnes retired for health reasons.

Barnes worked with William Rankine on the standard Treatise of Shipbuilding and on January 1, 1860, he was one of the founders of the Institution of Naval Architects, which is still in existence today, and was the last vice president of the institution . He died on August 29, 1908 in Llandrindod Wells.

Fonts

• An Account of Experiments performed on Board of some of Her Majesty's Ships in 1855, 1856 and 1857, for the purpose of ascertaining the Heights of their Center of Gravity , Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects, Vol. 1, London 1860
• On a New Method of Calculating the Statical and Dynamical Stabilities of Ships , Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects, Vol. 2, London 1861
• On Water-Fight Compartments in Iron Ships, as Affording Security against Founderung , Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects, Vol. 8, London 1867

literature

• Shipbuilding Society: 100 Years Shipbuilding Society - Biographies on the History of Shipbuilding , Springer, Berlin, 1999, ISBN 3-540-64150-5 .