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Philip Hichborn was born on March 4, 1839 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States. According to tradition, he was descended on the paternal side from Paul Revere. His parents were Philip and Martha (Gould) Hichborn.
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Philip Hichborn was born on March 4, 1839 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States. According to tradition, he was descended on the paternal side from Paul Revere. His parents were Philip and Martha (Gould) Hichborn.
Hichborn graduated at the age of sixteen from the high school in Boston and was indentured to the United States government as a shipwright apprentice at the Charlestown navy yard. His work was of such merit that the Secretary of the Navy ordered that he be given a special course of theoretical training in naval construction.
Near the outbreak of the Civil War, Hichborn went to the Pacific Coast as ship carpenter on the clipper ship Dashing Wave. Upon his arrival, he again entered government employ at the navy yard, Mare Island, California. Here likewise his work was of such quality that he rapidly advanced through the various civilian positions and on June 26, 1869, was appointed assistant naval constructor, with a commission in the United States navy.
The following year, he was detached from Mare Island and ordered to the navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. In 1875 he took a competitive examination and after passing number one, was commissioned naval constructor on March 12, 1875. In the same year he was transferred to League Island navy yard, Philadelphia.
From 1883 to 1889 he was a member of the Board of Inspection and Survey, and in June 1884, he was detached so that he might visit various shipyards in Europe, make a thorough survey, and report the results the following October. This task he performed with his usual perspicacity, producing a noteworthy document of nearly one hundred pages, filled with plans and charts (Report on European Dock-Yards, 1886). This report was of such importance that it was used as a textbook by naval men.
November 1884 found Hichborn assistant to the chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair in the Navy Department at Washington. Several years in this position fitted him to take over the duties of head of the bureau, and on September 7, 1893, he was commissioned chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair, and chief constructor with the rank of commodore, later rear admiral. This position he held until he retired, on March 4, 1901.
After his retirement, Hichborn kept actively in touch with naval construction and was called upon frequently by the Navy Department to act in an advisory capacity. He was thus able to give much valuable aid in building the latest type of dreadnought.
During his career he made two notable inventions: the Franklin life buoy and the Hichborn balanced turrets for battleships. The latter was of the utmost importance in naval construction. Before Hichborn perfected his invention, the position of the heavy guns caused the battleship to roll sideways when all the turret guns were trained to one side. By shifting the weight of the gun mounts and recoil apparatus, Hichborn was able to turn the guns in any direction and still preserve an even keel.
In 1900 he published Standard Designs for Boats of the United States Navy; he was the author of a number of other professional papers and was a member of various professional and patriotic societies.
He died in Washington.
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Hichborn was married in November 1875 to Jennie M. Franklin, of which marriage a son and a daughter were born.