Charles Bentham was an English shipwright. In 1727 the
Amsterdam Admiralty
The Admiralty of Amsterdam was the largest of the five Dutch admiralties at the time of the Dutch Republic. The administration of the various admiralties was strongly influenced by provincial interests. The territory for which Amsterdam ...
, brought in Bentham and two other English shipwrights (
John May and
Thomas Davis) to work for them in improving ship design and avoiding the wreck after wreck they had recently been suffering. Bentham created moulds and draughts which became very influential in the standardisation of the Dutch ships from the 1740s onwards.
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*http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19950705/ai_n13992711
*http://www.angelfire.com/vt/sneuper/vlootlijsten.htm
English shipwrights
Year of death unknown
Year of birth unknown
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