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1827 Age: 36 Promoted skill as an engine builder in London. 1827 Age: 36 Two fastest steamers in Northern yacht club regatta have Robert Napier designed engines. 1828 Age: 37 Purchases Camlachie Works and Vulcan Foundry in Glasgow. 1830 Age: 39 Hands over Camlachie works to his brother. Re-equips Vulcan Foundry to build large marine engines.
In 1838, Robert Napier won the Admiralty contract to provide engines for the Royal Navy, and a year later he set up the British and North American Steam-Packet Company with Samuel Cunard. Napier’s role was to build the four steamers which gave the firm its reputation for speed – the company would later become Cunard and build the famous Queens at Clydebank.
Robert Napier / Engineers. Robert Napier was born in Dumbarton, in 1791. He was a cousin of David Napier, a marine engineer who had built the boilers and engine castings for Henry Bell's Comet. Robert initially trained as a smith, and in 1821 he leased the Camlachie Foundry from his cousin and began to make land engines.
Jul 31, 2008 · Robert Napier was born in Dumbarton in 1791, the second son of a local blacksmith. After education at Dumbarton Academy and an apprenticeship to his father he left for Edinburgh where he worked for a time for Robert Stevenson the founder of the great dynasty of lighthouse builders.
Robert Napier "The Father of Clyde Shipbuilding", Napier was a steamship engine builder, expanding from paddle steamer engines into ocean-going vessel engines. Many esteemed Scottish shipbuilders were apprenticed to him.
Robert Napier 1791-1876. Born in Dumbarton on 18 June 1791, Napier was a marine engineer who initially worked in Edinburgh under Robert Stevenson, the lighthouse engineer. On returning to Dumbarton he declined a partnership in the family shipbuilding business and set up on his own in Glasgow, as engineer and blacksmith.
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Aug 23, 2021 · 1 IF anyone deserves the title Father of Clyde Shipbuilding, it is engineer and innovator Robert Napier. Although not born in the city – he was from Dumbarton – he is nevertheless inextricably linked with the city and its shipbuilding history. Napier was born on June 21, 1791, into a family of blacksmiths and ironworkers, although his ...
