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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hichborn, Philip 1839- (search)
Hichborn, Philip 1839- Naval constructor; born in Charlestown, Mass., March 4, 1839; graduated at the Boston High School, and became a shipwright apprentice in the Boston navy-yard. After five years service there he took a two years course in ship construction, design, and calculation under the direction of the Navy Departmompetitive examination, he was commissioned a naval constructor. He was selected by the Secretary of the Navy for special duty in Europe in 1884, and later Philip Hichborn. published the results of his investigations in a work on European dockyards. This work attracted much attention, and for a time foreign powers were greatly ul service, covering the remarkable increase of the navy, was touchingly embodied in a letter addressed to him by the Secretary of the Navy, Feb. 25, 1901. Rear-Admiral Hichborn was the recipient of numerous distinctions at home and abroad, one of the most prized being his election as an honorary member of the British Institute o
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Holland submarine torpedo-boat. (search)
ime after she had blown up the Housatonic. These accidents are charged against submarine navigation, when the fact is that had the boat been used as intended, under water, instead of on the surface, she would not have lost a single life. Admiral Hichborn, chief constructor of the navy, went extensively into the question of fatal accidents in submarine navigation. He found there were eighty-three cases set down at various times. On investigation he found that fifty had never occurred at all such, was that of Day, an Englishman, who built and operated a submarine boat late in the seventeenth century. The second time she was submerged, it is reported that the hull was crushed by the weight of water. In a report on the subject, Admiral Hichborn wrote: If Day were really crushed in his boat, he has the unique distinction of being the only victim of the dangers of submarine navigation; but this distinction depends upon the supposition that reports of submarine accidents were mu
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nixon, Lewis 1861- (search)
a special course in engineering and ordnance; and afterwards made tours throughout Great Britain and on the Continent to study the workings of the great European docks, dock-yards, arsenals, and steel and armor plants. In 1884 he was appointed assistant naval constructor, and in the following year was assigned to Roach's ship-yard in Chester, Pa., where the Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, and Dolphin were in course of construction. Later he served on the staffs of Chief Constructors Wilson and Hichborn, and also as superintending constructor at Cramp's shipyard, Philadelphia. In 1890 he drew the plans for the battle-ships of the Oregon and Indiana class. In 1891 he resigned from the navy to become superintending constructor for the Cramp ship-building company, and in 1894 he resigned this post and leased the Crescent Ship-yard, at Elizabeth, N. J., where he has since constructed many naval and other vessels, among them the Holland torpedo-boat, and the Annapolis, the first composite gun