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DUPUY DE LOME, STANISLAS CHARLES HENRI LAURENT (1816-1885) , French naval architect, the son of a retired naval officer, was born at Ploemeur, near Lorient, on the 15th of October 1816. He entered the Ecole Polytechnique in 1835, and in 1842 was sent to England to study and report on iron ship-building. Acting on his report, which was published in 1844, the government built their first iron vessels under his supervision. He planned and built the steam line-of-battle ship " Napoleon
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change in the construction of ships of war which has been going on ever since. In 1857 Dupuy de Lome was appointed " chef de la direction du materiel," at Paris; and in 1861, " inspecteur general du materiel de la marine." In 1866 he was elected a member of the Academy
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