William Hovgaard (born 1857, Aarhus, Denmark d. 1950, Summit, New Jersey) was a Danish, later American professor of naval design and construction at Massachusetts Institute of Technology until his retirement in 1933.
Hovgaard was one of the foremost authorities on ship design in his generation, especially on the general and structural design of warships. He wrote several books on naval design and construction and the history thereof, but also on a diversity of other subjects, and he received a significant number of orders, awards and merits during his life.
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His brother is Danish Navy officer Andreas Peter Hovgaard, who led an Arctic survey expedition to the Kara Sea on the steamship Dijmphna in 1882/83.[1]
^Hovgaard Ø. In: Anthony K. Higgins: Exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland. (= Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin Vol. 21, 2010). Copenhagen 2010, ISBN 978-87-7871-292-9
WilliamHovgaard (born 1857, Aarhus, Denmark d. 1950, Summit, New Jersey) was a Danish, later American professor of naval design and construction at Massachusetts...
Hovgaard can refer to: Andreas Peter Hovgaard (1853–1910), Danish Arctic explorer, brother of WilliamHovgaard Hans Hovgaard (1895–1980), Danish gymnast...
Institution) The Norsemen in Greenland: Recent Discoveries at Herjolfsnes by WilliamHovgaard (Geographical Review. Vol. 15, No. 4, Oct., 1925, pp. 605–616) "The...
armoured cruisers and serve as the "battleship-cruiser" for which WilliamHovgaard had argued after Tsushima. All these factors made battlecruisers attractive...
has also been cited by 20th-century naval architects, John Reid and WilliamHovgaard, as an example for making the case of discontinuation of longitudinal...
physician, scholar and antiquarian Ole Rømer (1644–1710), astronomer WilliamHovgaard (1857–1957), professor of naval design and construction H.O. Lange...
would lead him to create the battlecruiser. Danish Navy Commander WilliamHovgaard, who would later become president of New York Shipbuilding and serve...
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The Hovgaard Islands are a Canadian Arctic island group in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut Territory. They were named after Andreas Hovgaard, a Polar explorer...
Fillmore" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. WilliamHovgaard (1936). "Biographical memoir of George Fillmore Swain 1857-1931" (PDF)...
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Civilwarhome.com Hovgaard, William, Modern History of Warships, pp. 14–15. Hovgaard, William, Modern History of Warships, p. 18. Hovgaard, William, Modern History...
Andreas Peter Hovgaard (1 November 1853 – 15 March 1910) was a Danish naval officer and Arctic explorer. Hovgaard became a sub-lieutenant of the Danish...
King William Island (French: Île du Roi-Guillaume; previously: King William Land; Inuktitut: Qikiqtaq) is an island in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut...
it. In 1882, the Danish Arctic explorer and naval officer Andreas Peter Hovgaard, leader of the Arctic survey Dijmphna expedition, set himself the goal...
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1817-1863: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates, ISBN 9781473849624 Hovgaard, William (January 1971). Modern History of Warships: Comprising a Discussion...
west into the Simpson Strait, and to the south into Chantrey Inlet. The Hovgaard Islands group is located in the western part of Rasmussen Basin. v t e...
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