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Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and no students ever listened to a more 
inspiring Professor. 
On the marine engineering side at South Kensington, that first group 
included men who also did splendid work for their country—Bedbrook 
and Littlejohns, who occupied high positions in the Naval engineering 
service, and Pratten, who is, I am glad to say, still living, after many years 
of splendid work done in the service of Messrs. Harland & Wolff at 
Belfast. 
Many of those who started in the Naval service ultimately took up 
positions with the Board of Trade, the Registry Societies, and in private 
firms, while certain private students were permitted by the Admiralty to 
attend at Kensington and Greenwich. Of these I mention two—Professor 
F. P. Purvis and Sir Eustace Tennyson-d’Hyncourt, the latter recently 
retired from the position of D.N.C., and the former, after some years as 
chief of the scientific department at a private yard in this country, became 
Professor at Tokio, from which position he has just retired. The education 
in the Admiralty has has a commanding effect on the private shipyard 
and marine-engine work, and it is interesting to note that almost all the 
Professors of Naval Architecture at Glasgow University, Liverpool 
University, and Armstrong College at Newcastle have been Admiralty- 
trained men—Dr. Elgar, Professor Jenkins, and Sir John Biles at Glas- 
gow, Sir Westcott Abell, now chief at Lloyd’s Reyistry, and his brother, 
Professor T. B. Abell, at Liverpool, and Dr. Welch at Newcastle, while 
at the Royal Naval College the Professors in’ the technical subjects 
naturally were Navy men. 
Without proper technical education an efficient corps of designers 
and of research workers could not be maintained, and you will learn how 
considerable and important has been the research work guided by the 
Admiralty. Nor need I remind you of the research which has been carried 
out by our technical institutions, by Lloyd’s Registry, and by many. 
_ private firms and individuals. 
.. Research was given a great impetus by the necessities of the Ministry 
of Munitions and other Government Departments during the War, and a 
notable advance was made when the Department of Scientific and Indus- 
trial Research was established, with a parliamentary vote of its own, 
and in addition with a fund of a million. After many methods of assisting 
research had been considered, the Department specialised in aiding the 
establishment of research associations connected with specific industries, 
and by these bodies much useful work has been done. The Department 
took over the responsibility for the National Physical Laboratory at 
Teddington, and we are greatly indebted to the Laboratory, and especially 
_ to the William Froude Tank established there by the generosity of Sir 
_ Alfred Yarrow. There is no research association of shipbuilders and marine 
engineers, but they contribute to a fund for research in the William 
_ Froude Tank and use it and the other departments of the Laboratory for 
__ private experiments ; they are thus closely linked up with research. 
7 In research, to no two men are we more indebted than to Dr. Wm. 
Froude and his son, Mr. R. E. Froude, for the experimental work done 
by them on ships’ resistance and screw propellers. The British Association 
in 1868 appointed a committee to consider stability, propulsion, and sea- 
going qualities of ships, and of that committee Dr. Froude was a member, 
