Records of Lobnitz & Co Ltd, shipbuilders, Renfrew, Scotland 1867-1963

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Records of Lobnitz & Co Ltd, shipbuilders, Renfrew, Scotland 1867-1963

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SNAC Resource ID: 6297133

Glasgow University Archive Service

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Henry Christian Lobnitz was born in Frederica, Denmark , in 1831 into a family connected with the Danish Royal Arsenals and moved to London with the object of gaining greater engineering experience. After spending some time with Penn & Sons , Greenwich, and John Russel during during construction of the Great Eastern , he then served as an engineer on a naval vessel during the Crimean War. On the conclusion of his service he moved to the Clyde and joined the shipbuild...