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Article: 6,000 ships and counting.(HISTORY)
- Article from:
- Marine Log
- Article date:
- June 1, 2009
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Since its inception 80 years ago, Gibbs & Cox, Inc., has had a strong connection with naval ship construction. As noted in the August 1929 of Marine Engineering and Shipping Age (a forerunner of Marine Log), the first president of Gibbs and Cox Inc. was Daniel H. Cox, who was a 1894 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, England in 1898.
Cox's background included stints as a naval constructor and, during World War I, manager of ship construction for the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation.
William Francis Gibbs, the newly formed company's vice president, attended Harvard ...