Background
Mcdermott, George Robert was born on October 28, 1860 in Glasgow, Scotland. Son of Neil and Jane (Campbell) M.
Mcdermott, George Robert was born on October 28, 1860 in Glasgow, Scotland. Son of Neil and Jane (Campbell) M.
Educated academy and Technology Institute, Glasgow.
In shops and drafting offices, 1880-1883, chief scientific and designing staff, 1884-1886, naval architect and assistant to shipyard manager, 1887-1889, Clydebank Shipbuilding and Engineering Company (John Brown & Company), Clyde, Scotland. Naval architect and assistant to general manager Southampton (England) Naval Works, 1890-1891. Assistant professor naval architecture, 1892-1904, professor naval architecture in charge Department Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, 1904-1929, Sibley College, Cornell Univercity.
Professor emeritus Cornell Univercity, 1929.
On leave from university, appointed engineer-in-chief in organization and construction of Naval Repair Station of Lloyd Brazileiro (Brazilian Government), Ilha de Mucangue, Rio de Janeiro, 1910-1912. On leave from university, appointed May 4, 1917, by General George West. Goethals, as district officer, United States Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation, and appointed October 30, 1917, as agent of same by East. North. Hurley, chairman.
Appointed chairman United States Government committee, Atlantic & Gulf coast division on loadlines of mercantile vessels, July 1921.
Married Jeanie Lennox Rolland, July 1880. Children: George Rolland, Marion Dall (deceased), Jean.