Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Presidential address [1961]
- In
- Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
- Imprint
- vol. 33, no. 3, Mar 1961, pp. 53-57
- Description
Retiring President's address by Captain G. I. D. Hutcheson, CBE BE MIEAust, to the forty-first Annual General Meeting of the Institution of Engineers Australia. (At Melbourne, on 28th February 1961.)
- Abstract
This year the Royal Australian Navy is celebrating its fiftieth
anniversary and last year also witnessed two very important events in the history of ships, the Bi-Centenary of Lloyd's Register of Shipping and the Centenary of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, two bodies which are connected very closely with ships and have played very important parts in their development. As one who has spent the greater part of his career associated with them, it is perhaps appropriate, therefore, that I should choose ships as my subject.
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In every field of engineering, members of our profession strive
for greater efficiency, for better designs, and for improved methods of construction, and the Transactions of our Institution contain many records of their achievements in the various branches of engineering in which they are engaged.
In the work associated with the building of ships and their
machinery installations, similar developments have taken place and I will endeavour to draw your attention very briefly to some of the more important of these and to point out some of the changes in ships which have occurred in the period covered by my own experience.