John Henslow (Surveyor of the Navy)
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Sir John Henslow (9 October 1730 – 22 September 1815) was a Surveyor to the Navy in the British (Royal Navy), a post he held jointly or solely from 1784 to 1806.
Career
He was 7th child of John Henslow, a master carpenter in the dockyard at Woolwich.[http://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/17999/excerpt/9780521117999_excerpt.pdf Darwin’s Mentor: John Stevens Henslow, 1796-1861] S. M. Walters and E. A. Stow CUP
- 1745 Apprenticed to Sir Thomas Slade
- 1762 Master Boat Builder at Woolwich
- 1771 Assistant Surveyor to the Navy
- 1784 Surveyor to the Navy
- 1793 Knighted
- 1806 retired to Sittingbourne, Kent
Cape Henslow on Guadalcanal is named after him.
From 1793 he worked jointly with William Rule.{{cite web |title=Sir John Henslow (1730-1815) |url=https://threedecks.org/toc/nnr/prob%2011/1569/index.php?display_type=show_crewman&id=23272 |website=Three Decks |access-date=10 November 2022}}
Among the vessels he designed were the {{sclass|Acute|gun-brig|1}}s and four frigates to the same design, the first of which was {{HMS|Phoebe|1795|2}}. He also designed the Bloodhound-class gun-brigs and Conquest-class gun-brigs. The {{sclass|Laurel|post ship|1}} sixth rates were a series of six ships built to his 1805 design. Perhaps his smallest vessels were the two Placentia-class sloops of 42 tons burthen, which he designed for coastal patrol duties off Newfoundland.
Family
His son John Prentis Henslow, solicitor, was father of John Stevens Henslow. He was also the grandfather of Francis Hartwell Henslowe, who was the son of Edward Prentis Henslow.
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