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Leonard Peskett, OBE (1861 – 1924) Christie's Auction House was the Cunard Line's Senior naval architect, designer CUNARD LINE ARCHIVES, UK National Archives The age of Cunard: a transatlantic history 1839-2003, Daniel Allen Butler. p. 156 and the designer of the company's ocean liners RMS Mauretania, RMS Lusitania, The United States in the First World War: an encyclopedia, Anne Cipriano Venzon and Paul L. Miles, p. 357 RMS Aquitania, CUNARDER RMS AQUITANIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY and the RMS Carmania.
Peskett came to Cunard in 1884 from H.M. Dockyard, where he had been an apprentice shipwright. He remained at Cunard until his death in 1924.
He is the author of the paper "The design of steamships from the owner's point of view," published in Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects, London, 1914 Cited by Transactions of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Vol. 29, p. 269
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