Seppings Island

Seppings Island (48˚51'00" 125˚12'00" E side of Imperial Eagle Channel, SW of Diana I, Barkley Sd, W side of Vancouver I). Robert Seppings (1767–1840), born in Norfolk and apprenticed as a shipwright at a young age, was a noted British naval architect who came up with a number of advances in the design and construction of warships. He invented “Seppings blocks,” which greatly reduced the time and labour needed for inspecting the lower hulls of vessels in drydock. In 1813 he was...

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