Person
Clarkson, William (1859 - 1934)
- Born
- 26 March 1859
Whitby, Yorkshire, England - Died
- 21 January 1934
Darling Point, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Naval officer
Summary
Sir William Clarkson was sent to visit Japan, the USA and the UK to study naval dockyards and ship construction in 1907. He remained in the UK 1908-1911 overseeing the building of destroyers for the Commonwealth Naval Forces, which became in 1911 the Royal Australian Navy Fleet Unit.
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Published resources
Books
- Coulthard-clark, Chris, Without Peer: Sir William Clarkson, KBE, CMG (1859-1934): Engineer, Vice-Admiral Royal Australian Navy (Sydney: Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering, 2002), 98 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Primrose, B.N., 'Clarkson, Sir William (1859-1934), naval officer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 18-19. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/clarkson-sir-william-5673. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q18159788. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/93615869. Details
- 'Clarkson, William (18590326-19340121)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1121302. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_c.html. Details
Rosanne Walker
Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 5 March 2018
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