Education
1745 Apprenticed to Sir Thomas Slade.
1745 Apprenticed to Sir Thomas Slade.
He was 7th child of John Henslow a master carpenter in the dockyard at Woolwich
1762 Master Boat Builder at Woolwich
1771 Assistant Surveyor to the Navy
1784 Surveyor to the Navy
1793 Knighted
1806 retired to Sittingbourne, Kent
Cape Henslow on Guadalcanal is named after him
Among the vessels he designed were the Acute class gun-brigs and four frigates to the same design, the first of which was Phoebe. The Laurel class post ship sixth rates were a series of six ships built to his 1805 design. Perhaps his smallest vessels were the two Placentia-class sloops of 42 tons burthen, which he designed for coastal patrol duties off Newfoundland.
He was also the grandfather of Francis Hartwell Henslowe, who was the son of Edward Prentis Henslow.
Royal Society.