The Royal Naval Exhibition, 1891

The Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects

Delphin2 is a hover capable torpedo style Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), developed at the University of Southampton to provide a test bed for research in marine robotics, primarily to enhance the manoeuvring capability of AUVs. This paper describes the mechanical design of the vehicle and its software architecture. The performance of the vehicle is presented as well as preliminary finding...

The Royal Naval surgeons in the battle of Coronel.

Introduction The battle of Coronel was the fi rst British defeat in the First World War and is not often remembered. It played out in the southern Pacifi c Ocean, off the coast of Chile. On 1 November 1914, the Royal Navy (RN) confronted a German squadron outside the port of Coronel (36o 59’ 26.24’’ S, 73o 37’ 53.39’’ W), close to Chile’s second city of Concepción. The Germans won a resounding ...

The mortality of Royal Naval submariners 1960-1989.

The mortality pattern of 15,318 Royal Naval submariners has been examined to asses the long term effects on health of serving in submarines. The main outcome measures used were standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) which present the submariners' mortality rates as a percentage of those for men in England and Wales. The SMR for all causes of death combined was low at 86, this being comparable to ...

Reengineering Production Systems: the Royal Netherlands Naval Dockyard

Reengineering production systems in an attempt to meet tight cost, quality and leadtime standards has received considerable attention in the last decade. In this paper, we discuss the reengineering process at the Royal Netherlands Naval Dockyard. The process starts with a characterisation and a careful analysis of the production system and the set of objectives to be pursued. Next, a new produc...

Report of the Royal Maternity and Simpson Memorial Hospital for the Quarter Ending 30th April 1891