Charles Augustus Hartley

Sir Charles Augustus Hartley ( born February 3, 1825 Heworth, County Durham, † February 20, 1915 in London ) was an English hydraulic engineer.

He initially from 1845 in Scotland, the railway works and was hired in 1848 at the port facilities in Plymouth and Devon. In 1855, he joined during the Crimean War with royal approval in the service of Turkey and commanded the Corps of Engineers prior to Kerch.

In 1857 he was appointed chief engineer of the launched with the Paris Peace European Danube Commission and initiated projects to improve the navigability of the Danube lower course in this position. 1858-61 he oversaw the expansion of the Sulinaarms of the Danube Delta and the construction of harbor fortifications of Sulina, which thereby became one of the safest Black Sea ports; only in the 1880s, the channeling started by Hartley of St. Georgsarms was realized. In the following years he was pulled for various infrastructure projects of European and overseas powers to rate: from Austria because of the port facilities in Trieste, from Russia because of the channeling of the Don estuary, from England because of Hugliarms of the Ganges and of the Romanian government for its coastal fortifications. 1867 Hartmann won the big prize over 8000 rubles for his plans for a new port facilities in Odessa. 1873-74 he attended at the invitation of the U.S. President the USA to inspect the development of the Mississippi Delta. 1884-1906 he was a member of the technical Suez Canal Commission.

In 1862, a British knighthood he was giving was added to the Michaels and George Medal in 1884 and also received several medals of the Romanian state.