High – Lift rudder update

October 15th, 2003 by JCB
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HIGH LIFT RUDDERS UPDATE

Following the July feature on rudders where I speculated as to the name of the British inventor of the articulated rudder, retired Great Yarmouth pilot Alan Osgood informs me that there is a model of an articulated rudder in the Science Museum in London invented by Mr. Henry Lumley. The rudder was trialed in HMS Bullfinch in 1862!

So, I feel that in memory of this visionary, when confronted with a vessel with an articulated rudder we have a duty to inform the Master that he doesn’t have a “Becker” rudder but a “Lumley”!