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See also:SCHICHAU, See also:FERDINAND (1814-1896) , See also:German engineer and shipbuilder, was See also:born at See also:Elbing, where his See also:father was a See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
smith and ironworker, on the 3oth of See also:January 1814. He studied See also:engineering at See also:Berlin and then in See also:England, and returning to Elbing in 1837 started See also:works of his own, which from small beginnings eventually See also:developed into an See also:establishment employing some 8000 men. He began by making See also:steam engines, See also:hydraulic presses and See also:industrial machinery, and, by concerning himself with See also:canal See also:work and See also:river or See also:coast improvement, came to the designing and construction of dredgers, in which he was the See also:pioneer (1841), and finally to the See also:building of See also:ships.
His " Borussia," in 1855, was the first See also:- SCREW (O.E. scrue, from O. Fr. escroue, mod. ecrou; ultimate origin uncertain; the word, or a similar one, appears in Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Schraube, Dan. skrue, but Skeat, following Diaz, finds the origin in Lat. scrobs, a ditch, hole, particularl
screw-See also:vessel constructed in See also:Germany. Schichau began to specialize in building See also:torpedo-boats and destroyers (at first for the See also:Russian See also:government) at an See also:early date. From 1873 he had the co-operation of Carl H. Ziese, who married his daughter. Ziese introduced See also:compound engines into the first vessels built by Schichau for the German See also:navy, the See also:gun-boats " Habicht " and " Mowe," launched in 1879, and also designed in 1881 the first triple-expansion machinery constructed on the See also:continent, supplying these engines to the torpedo-boats built by Schichau for the German navy in r884 the first of some 16o that by the See also:year 1909 were provided for Germany out of the Elbing yards. Torpedo-boats were also built for See also:China, See also:Austria and See also:Italy. Meanwhile Elbing had become insufficient for the increased output demanded. In 1889 Schichau established a floating See also:dock and re-pairing shops at See also:Pillau, and soon afterwards, by arrangement with the government, started a large See also:shipbuilding yard at See also:Danzig, for the purpose of constructing the largest ships of See also:war and for the See also:mercantile marine. He died on the 23rd of January 1896; but Ziese carried on the work, and not only made the Danzig yard the See also:chief See also:cradle of the new German See also:fleet, rivalling the finest See also:English establishments, but also largely developed the equipment at Elbing. The Schichau works have made the name of their originator to See also:rank with that of See also:Krupp.
End of Article: SCHICHAU, FERDINAND (1814-1896)
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