Notes and bibliography: Hardy, A. C. (Alfred Cecil), 1898-
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Commander A.C. Hardy, R.N. |
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Commander Alfred Cecil Hardy R.N. was a prolific writer. He trained as a naval architect at Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Comapny, Jarrow-on-Tyne. He was involved in shipbuilding and conversion in Great Britain and the United States. At one time he lectured on shipping at the City of London College. Prior to 1939 he was a senior partner at Hardy, Tobin and Company. During World War II he served in the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors, involved in converting cargo ships into assault carriers, was secreetary to the Admiralty's Shipping Security Co-ordination Committee and acted as personal technical assistant to the Chief fo Combined Operations at the First Quebec Conference. Later he went to Berlin as the senior British technical member of the Tripartite Naval Commission. By the 1950s, he had returned to his own firm of consulting naval architects, serving as Chairman of Hardy, Tobin and Company Ltd. He was member of the Institute of Naval Architects.
His publications were numerous, and include the following, in chronological order:
| Title | 1st ed. |
|---|---|
| Merchant ship types; a survey of the various units engaged in the water transport of people and merchandise | 1924 |
| Motor ships | 1925 |
| Motorships; an investigation into the characteristics of mercantile vessels propelled by internal combustion engines. | 1925 |
| Bulk cargoes | 1926 |
| Bulk cargoes; a treatise on their carriage by sea and consequent effect on the design and construction of merchant ships | 1926 |
| From slip to sea; a chronological account of the construction of merchant ships from the laying of the keel plate to the trial trip | 1926 |
| American ship types; a review of the work, characteristics, and construction of ship types peculiar to the waters of the North American continent | 1927 |
| Seaways and sea trade : being a maritime geography of routes, ports, canals and cargoes | 1927 |
| The motorship in relation to world trade routes | 1927 |
| Motorshipping; a study of the Diesel-engined ship in relation to present-day shipping, showing something of the newest era in sea transport | 1928 |
| Seaways and sea trade; being a maritime geography of routes, ports, rivers, canals and cargoes (rev. ed.) | 1928 |
| Oil ships and sea transport; a story of oil in relation to its effect on sea transportation | 1931 |
| British ships and shipping illustrated | 1933 |
| Motorshipping in 1932 : a year's development in retrospect | 1933 |
| British warships illustrated | 1935 |
| Ships at work | 1939 |
| Warships at work; a naval notebook explaining in text and by profile some functions of the principal warship types of the world | 1940 |
| The merchant navy at war | 1941 |
| World shipping; a note book on seaways and sea trade and a maritime geography of routes, ports, rivers, canals and cargoes | 1941 |
| Achievement in British shipbuilding. | 1942 |
| American sea power | 1942 |
| You and your ships : a guide to Merchant Navy power | 1942 |
| Sea transport : a wartime review of peacetime merchant navy power | 1943 |
| Sky-ships; the story of sky ways and sky trade, past, present and future | 1943 |
| World shipping; trade routes, ship types, cargoes, ports, coasts, canals. | 1943 |
| Wreck-S.O.S.; a story of how ships are wrecked, how they are repaired and what exists to save them | 1944 |
| Modern British motor trawlers | 1946 |
| Seafood ships. | 1947 |
| The Wonderful story of the sea | 1947 |
| Everyman's history of the sea war, Vol. 1 (sept. 1939 - dec. 41) | 1948 |
| Modern marine engineering; a practical work of ship powering and marine propulsion ... | 1948 |
| The book of the ship : an exhaustive pictorial and factual survey of world ships, shipping, and shipbuilding | 1948 |
| Everyman's history of the sea war, Vol. 2 (dec. 1941 - sept. 43) | 1949 |
| Everyman's history of the sea war, Vol. 3 (sept. 1943 - to end) | 1955 |
| History of motorshipping; the story of fifty years of progress which have had a profound influence upon the development of sea transport during the twentieth century. | 1955 |
| Shipbuilding : background to a great industry | 1964 |