Brian Leslie Robson

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. John Montgomery & Brian Robson (this person)

• Occupation. naval architect
Membership Fellow - Royal Institution of Naval Architects. Until recently (2006) member of Society Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and American Society of Naval Engineers
1953-55 Apprentice Boatbuilder (private shipyard)
1955-58 Apprentice Boatbuilder and Shipwright at Garden Island Naval Dockyard
1958-59 Draftsman at Garden Island Naval Dockyard
1959-62 Trainee Naval Architect for Department of the Navy
1963 Navy Hull Overseer at Codock
Joined Navy Office Canberra during 1963
Part time Employment Lecturer in Naval Architecture Australian Defence Force Academy (1990 to 1996)
Positions held
1. RAN Small Craft Design Manager (1966-67) Department of Defence
Department of Defence 1963 - 96
2. Australian Naval Construction Liaison Officer. MOD(PE) Bath, U.k. 1968-70
3. Naval Constructor, Admiralty Experiment Works Haslar, U.K. 1971
4. Senior Naval Architect, Directorate of Forward Design (1972-74)
5. RAN FFG Technical Director, US Naval Sea Systems Command, Virginia USA (1975-77)
6. Design Manager, RAN Inshore Minehunter Project (1978-81)
7. Design Manager RAN Oceanographic Ship Project (1978-80)
8. Assistant Director Naval Ship Design (1978-81)
9. Director Naval Ship Design (1982-88)
10. International Co-Operative Research Co-ordinator Naval Ship Structures and Hydrodynamics (1983-87)
11. Project Director Pollution Contol (Project 1160)
12. Director Forward Design Ship Projects (1985)
13. Assistant Director General Naval Engineering Services (1989-96)
14. Director Naval Ship Production (1987)
15. Director Manager, Offshore Patrol Combatant Project (1994)
16. Director General Naval Engineering Services (Nov 94-March 95)
Retired from Department of Defence November 1996
New Business registered PRONAV Consultancy Services may 1999

• Education. Bachelor of Engineering in Naval Architecture, University of NSW 1963 (honours)

• fact. Professional Activities President Royal Institution Naval Architects (Australian Division) 1985-90, 1993-94 .
Current Chairman Queensland Section of R.I.N.A. (Aust Div)
Professional Papers:
Warship Design in the RAN - Some Design Aspects and a Look to the Future. Australian Division, Royal Institution of Naval rchitects 8 November 1973 Canberra.
2. Development of the Royal Australian Navy GRP Minehunter, Transactions, Royal Institution of Naval Architects 1983 (Bronze Medal Award)
3. The Royal Australian Navy Inshore Minehunter Lessons Learned. First International Conference on Foam Sandwich Construction, Stockholm 1988
4. Systematic Series of High Speed Displacement Hull Forms for Naval Combatants. Transactions, Royal Institution of Naval Architects 1987
5. In-House Ship Design Capability. H.H.G Dalrymple and B.L. Robson, R.A.N Engineering Conference 1988
6. RAN Patrol Boat Propeller Investigation. Commonwealth Engineer Officers Conference, Bath U.K. 1984
7. Design Aspects and Performance of the RAN Oceanographic Ship HMAS Cook. Marine Technology Symposium. Sydney 1984
8. AUSEVAL- A Systems Approach For The Preliminary Design Of Naval Ships.W.Smith, T.Lyon. and B.L. Robson, Bicentennial Maritime Symposium. Sydney 1988.
Overseas Experience
1. Three years in the United Kingdom
2 Three years in the USA
3. Fourteen other overseas visits to U.K. USA,
Canada. Netherlands, France, Denmark, Germany,
Sweden. Norway and Thailand.

Current Address19 Spindrift Court
Noosa Waters Queensland 4566
Telephone 07-54743556
Email briju@ozemail.com.au

• connection. Brian Robson is Robert's second cousin in this way:
His father was Herbert Robson (1911) who married Ivy Litto (1913)
Her father was Alfred Litto (1884) who married Edith Kemp (1885)
Her father was Edward Kemp (1857) & he also had William George Kemp (1895)
He had Veda Kemp (1925) who married Robert Alfred Bray (1920)
Who had Robert Arthur Bray (1947) who married me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Brian married Judith Mary (Jude) Stephenson, daughter of Robert Coates Stephenson and Gwenda Mary Skelton, on 20 Jan 1967 in Canberra, ACT Australia. (Judith Mary (Jude) Stephenson was born on 12 May 1940 in Hurstville, Sydney, NSW Australia.)