Leonard Peskett, OBE (1861 – 1924) was the Cunard Line's Senior naval architect, designer and the designer of the company's ocean liners RMS Mauretania, RMS Lusitania, RMS Aquitania, and the RMS Carmania.
Peskett came to Cunard in 1884 from H.M. Dockyard, where he had been an apprentice shipwright. He remained at Cunard until his death in 1924.
He is the author of the paper "The design of steamships from the owner's point of view," published in Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects, London, 1914
References
- ^ Christie's Auction House
- CUNARD LINE ARCHIVES, UK National Archives
- The age of Cunard: a transatlantic history 1839-2003, Daniel Allen Butler. p. 156
- The United States in the First World War: an encyclopedia, Anne Cipriano Venzon and Paul L. Miles, p. 357
- CUNARDER RMS AQUITANIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine
- Cited by Transactions of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Vol. 29, p. 269
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