Samuda Brothers

Samuda Brothers was a shipbuilding and mechanical engineering companies in Cubitt Town on the Isle of Dogs in London.

History

The two engineers Jacob and Joseph d' Aguilar Samuda Samuda were Sephardic Jews whose family is settled in London about the beginning of the 18th century. Born in 1811, Jacob became familiar with the engineer John Hague, two-year- younger brother Joseph first learned in his father's company before he succeeded his brother. Upon completion of the apprenticeship both began on their own account in the general and work Marine engineering. 1839, it was patented in accordance with previous experiments, the Atmospheric Railway, the principles of Joseph in his book "A Treatise on the Adaptation of Atmospheric Pressure to the Purposes of Locomotion on Railways " summarized.

In 1843 both established the iron Samuda Brothers shipyard in Orchard Place. On November 12, 1844 Jacob came along with six other people in an explosion during the test drive of the iron steamer built by them Gypsy Queen, who had received a new steam engine for patents of Jacob Samuda to.

The shipyard quickly developed further in the following years 1852 and moved to a larger shipyard in Cubitt Town. Another ten years later, the yard twice as many ships already delivered from, taken together, like all other London yards. Were built iron freight and passenger steamer, steam yachts and inland waterway vessels and warships. Many foreign navies ordered ironclads at Samuda Brothers, which ensured their survival during triggered by the collapse of the London banking house of Overend, Gurney & Company financial crisis in 1866.

Joseph Samuda was in 1860 one of the founders of the Institute of Naval Architects, as its treasurer and vice-president, he was later and later also a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. After years of collaboration with the London Metropolitan Board of Works, he began a lasting until 1880 parliamentary career in the following. He later joined on the Christian faith.

1877 garnered the later Japanese Admiral Tōgō Heihachiro shipbuilding experience at the shipyard and oversaw the construction of the Japanese battleship Fuso.

After the death of Joseph Samuda in 1885 they tried unsuccessfully to sell the shipyard as a going concern, following which the operation closed in 1890 and the inventory was sold in a multi-day auction. On the grounds of the former Millward - Weft the wood finishing and Vulkanisierunternehmen Haskin Wood Vulcanizing Company moved on. Since 1965 there is the residential and business district Samuda Estate on the territory of the former shipyard.