| Reference number | EC/1921/12 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XIII, 203; A01923 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Tennyson D'Eyncourt, Sir Eustace Henry William: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Date stamp on reverse. Citation typed |
| Citation | Since 1912 Director of Navel Construction as successor to Sir Philip Watts and responsible for all ships designed and constructed for the Navy, including HMS Hood. Specially responsible for bulge protection against torpedoes, which has in all cases proved itself efficient, no ship provided with it having sunk by a torpedo or having personnel killed; whilst sister ships not provided with the bulge have, in more than one case, been torpedoed and sunk. In this connection was associated with the late Prof Hopkinson in experiments to determine the practical application of law of comparsion to underwater explosions. Head of the Admiralty Committee appointed to design and build land-ships and was chiefly responsible for the design and construction of the tanks. Chief Technical Advisor to the Munitions Department and the War Office since 1915. Largely responsible for the design of all rigid air-ships built during the war, including the design of 'R33' and 'R34.' On the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and Admiralty Assessor on the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. Designed various mercantile ships with novel features for the Fairfield Co, and many warships for foreign countries, including HMS Agincourt, originally designed for Brazil. His numerous Admiralty reports on scientific matters were confidential, but he has read a number of papers on ship design, viz: - 'Limits of Economical Speed' (INA, June, 1901); 'Naval Construction during the War' (INA, April, 1919); 'HMS 'Hood'' (INA, April, 1920); 'The Influence of the War on Engineering' (Presidential Address, Junior Institution of Engineers, 1919); and also one on 'The Design of British Tanks' read at the 1919 Meeting of the British Association at Bournemouth. |
| Proposers | Charles A Parsons; Dugald Clerk; Joseph J Thomson; John I Thornycroft; Rayleigh; R T Glazebrook; Henry J Oram; H S Hele Shaw; W E Daldy; A A C Swinton; George Beilby; E G Coker; R E Froude; Henry B Jackson; Herbert Jackson; Joseph Petavel; Richard Threlfall |
| Access status | Open |
| Related records in the catalogue | NLB/69/792 |
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Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA1156 | Tennyson D'Eyncourt; Sir; Eustace Henry William (1868 - 1951); naval architect | 1868 - 1951 |