The discussion follows corporate partnerships, engineer recruitment, and repeated shipyard travel to explain how design knowledge circulated between Britain and the United States. Stephen Piggott's career, from an American turbine specialist at John Brown to chief engineering designer and managing director at Clydebank, anchors that exchange in the yard that built HMS Hood. His wartime willingness to lend draftsmen, finish other builders' hulls, and lead work on the Malta-class carrier program illustrates institutional trust as well as technical transfer. Engineers also crossed the Atlantic repeatedly to maintain design commonality and integrate research between yards. Naval technology moved through people and trusted industrial relationships as well as formal plans.
Chapter · 12:41-18:08
Transatlantic engineering networks behind British warship design
Babcock & Wilcox, John Brown, and American engineer Stephen Piggott show how British and American naval engineering knowledge moved across the Atlantic.