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John Edye

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{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2012}}John Edye FRS (7 August 1789 – 1 March 1873)^[1] was the talented Chief Clerk in the Surveyor of the Navy's Office during the 19th century.^[2] He invented a new means of construction for wooden warships and produced the detail for the Surveyor William Symonds's many designs.^[2] Together he and Symonds created larger and larger wooden warships for the Royal Navy,^[2] which were able not only to defeat an enemy by weight of fire (as the Navy had long been able to do) but also to pursue them and force battle.^[2]

Edye was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 5 February 1835.^[1]

Footnotes

1. ^¹Complete List of Royal Society Fellows 1660-2007, page 109
2. ^¹²³Biography of Symonds by Andrew Lambert on the Dictionary of National Biography, with details on Edye.

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