Marmaduke Stalkartt

Marmaduke Stalkartt was the fourth child of Mary Burchett and Hugh Stalkartt.{{Cite web |title=Marmaduke Stalkartt (1750-1805) |url=https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_crewman&id=23578 |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=threedecks.org}} After presumably serving an apprenticeship at Deptford Dockyard, he was sent to India in 1796 to establish shipyards to build men-of-war in teak.

Stalkartt's Naval architecture (1781) was divided into seven books: 'Of Whole-Moulding'; 'Of the Yacht'; 'Of the Sloop'; 'Of the Forty-Four-Gun-Ship'; 'Of the Seventy-Four-Gun-Ship'; 'Of the Cutter, and Ending of the Lines'; and 'Of the Frigate'.{{cite book|author1=Charles Lyon Chandler|author-link=Charles Lyon Chandler|author2=Marion Vernon Brewington|author3=Edgar Preston Richardson|title=Philadelphia, port of history, 1609-1837|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A3wTAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=18 September 2012|year=1976|publisher=Philadelphia Maritime Museum|isbn=978-0-913346-02-0|page=20}} It was reviewed appreciatively in The Critical Review{{cite book|editor=Tobias George Smollett|title=The Critical review, or, Annals of literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f3jQAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA364|accessdate=20 September 2012|year=1783|publisher=W. Simpkin and R. Marshall|pages=364–73, 420–34}} and The Monthly Review.{{cite book|editor=Ralph Griffiths|title=The Monthly Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JcrkAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA444|accessdate=20 September 2012|year=1782|publisher=Printed for R. Griffiths|pages=444–56}}

A copy originally purchased by King George IV in 1781 is held by the Royal Collections Trust, one the first books he led a subscription list for. A further copy, identically bound in a cover decorated with gold embossed nautical images, was owned by King George III is held by the British Library.{{Cite web |title=Marmaduke Stalkartt (active 1781) - Naval architecture, or the rudiments and rules of ship-building... / by Marmaduke Stalkartt |url=https://www.rct.uk/collection/1059264/naval-architecture-or-the-rudiments-and-rules-of-ship-building-by-marmaduke |access-date=2025-04-19 |website=www.rct.uk |language=en}}

Stalkartt died on 24 September 1805 in Calcultta.

• Naval architecture, or, The rudiments and rules of ship building: exemplified in a series of draughts and plans: with observations sending to the further improvement of that important art, 1781. [https://books.google.com/books?id=kdZLAAAAcAAJ Google Books]

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• Lars Bruzelius, [http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Biography/Stalkartt,_Marmaduke.html Marmaduke Stalkartt]

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