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Samuda Brothers was an 
Samuda Brothers initially leased a premises on the Goodluck Hope peninsula, 
In 1877 Togo Heihachiro, later a prominent
,
engineering
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and ship building
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firm at Cubitt Town
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on the Isle of Dogs
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in London
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, founded by Jacob
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and Joseph d'Aguilar Samuda. The site is now occupied by Samuda Estate.
Samuda Brothers initially leased a premises on the Goodluck Hope peninsula, Leamouth
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, London, in 1843, by the mouth of Bow Creek. However disaster struck with one of their first ships, the ''Gipsy Queen'' which exploded on its test trip in November 1844. Jacob was killed with nine of the firm's employees. There was a further explosion at their shipyard in 1845 and another three workers were killed.
The firm moved to Cubitt Town in 1852, having outgrown a site that was hemmed in by other industrial premises. By this time the company was run by Joseph, Jacob having been killed in the trial of the ''Gipsy Queen''. The Cubitt Town yard specialised in iron and steel warships and steam packets and by 1863 was said to be producing double the output of the other London shipyards combined.
Samuda fabricated components for the Waterloo and Whitehall Railway, an atmospheric railway
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system. The project was abandoned due to the 1866 financial crisis. Orders from Germany, Russia and Japan enabled the firm to survive the crisis, which affected many other London yards.'Cubitt Town: Riverside area: from Cubitt Town Pier to the Graving Docks', Survey of London: volumes 43 and 44: Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs (1994), pp. 532–539. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46530. Retrieved 7 November 2007.
In 1877 Togo Heihachiro, later a prominent Japan
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ese admiral
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, came for work experience
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with the Samuda Brothers after completing his training at Naval Preparatory School in Portsmouth
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, and the Royal Naval College
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at Greenwich
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. He supervised the construction of the ''Fusō'' before returning to Japan. He led the Imperial Japan
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ese navy to victory in the Russo-Japanese War
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, establishing Japan as a Great Power
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.
Following the death of Joseph in 1885 attempts were made to sell the firm as a going concern
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. This was unsuccessful, resulting in closure in the 1890s, leaving Yarrows and Thames Ironworks as the last significant London shipbuilders.
Ships built by the Samuda Brothers
* SS ''Carnatic'', P&O, 1862 * HMS ''Tamar'',Royal Navy
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, 1863
* BAP ''Independencia'' , Peruvian Navy, 1864
* '' Mahroussa'', Khedive of Egypt
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, 1865
* ''Bordein'', Khedive of Egypt, Nile steamer c 1865
* SMS ''Kronprinz'', Prussian Navy, 1867
* ''Muin-i Zafer'', Ottoman Navy
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, 1869
* SMS ''Deutschland'', German Navy 1875
* ''Fusō'' , Imperial Japanese Navy
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, 1877
* HMS ''Belleisle'', Royal Navy 1876 (originally to be ''Peyk-i Şeref'' for Ottoman Empire)
* HMS ''Orion'', Royal Navy 1879 (originally to be ''Büruç-u Zafer'' for Turkish Navy)
* ARA ''Almirante Brown'', Argentine Navy
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, 1880
* ''Riachuelo'', Brazilian Navy, 1883Clive Trebilcock,''Phoenix Assurance and the Development of British Insurance, Vol II, The Era of the Insurance Giants 1870–1984'', P19,Cambridge University Press
* HMS ''Sappho'', Royal Navy, 1891
* PS ''Myleta'' (1891), a paddle steamer with a two-cylinder single oscillating engine. Built for the South Eastern Railway, and scrapped in 1909
See also
*South Devon Railway engine houses
The South Devon Railway engine houses were built in Devon, England, to power the Atmospheric railway, atmospheric trains on the South Devon Railway Company, South Devon Railway between Exeter St Davids railway station, Exeter St Davids and Plymou ...
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