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ENGINEER VICE-ADMIRAL SIR GEORGE GOODWIN GOODWIN, who died at Havant on April 2, was the sixth to hold the important position of engineer-in-chief of the Fleet—an office created in 1847. The first two holders, Thomas Lloyd and Sir James Wright, were civilians, but after the latter retired in 1887, the holders have all been naval engineer officers: Richard Sennett, an inspector of machinery, following Wright and he in turn being succeeded by Engineer Vice-Admirals Sir John Durston, Sir Henry Oram, F.R.S., and Sir George Goodwin. These four distinguished officers were all products of the admirable system of training inaugurated by the Admiralty in the dockyards and at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
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Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir George Goodwin, K.C.B. Nature 155, 568 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155568a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155568a0