Unsorted papers relating to Barnaby's work as Director and Chief Naval Architect of John I. Thornycroft & Co Ltd, also his position as Honorary Vice-President of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA): Technical reports, folded plans and blueprints, photographs of testing models and calculations for vessels designed and constructed by the Thornycroft company, circa 1942-1966. Thornycroft publicity material including brochures and specification leaflets for motor boats and marine engines. Information on ship hydrodynamics, testing tank facilities and the International Towing Tank Conference, circa 1957-1963. RINA meeting minutes, lectures and correspondence.

Unsorted papers relating to Barnaby's publications, yachting activities and family history: Research notes, drafts and correspondence for books written in the 1960s including 'Basic Naval Architecture', 'Some Ship Disasters and Their Causes', '100 Years of Specialised Shipbuilding and Engineering' and 'The Institution of Naval Architects 1860-1960'. Personal log of the twin screw ketch FIDALGA III (1952) from Hamble to Cowes via Stornoway, 1953. Ephemera relating to the Royal Southern Yacht Club. Family papers, including correspondence of his father Sydney Walker Barnaby, circa 1890-1920. Please contact archive staff for more information about ordering from this collection.

Administrative / biographical background
Kenneth Coules Barnaby was born at Chiswick, London, into a family of shipwrights and naval architects. His father was Sydney Walker Barnaby (1855-1925) and his grandfather was Sir Nathaniel Barnaby (1829-1915). He started his apprenticeship with John I. Thornycroft & Co Ltd in 1904. He simultaneously studied for a BSc at the Central Technical College in South Kensington. He was then employed in the shipbuilding yards of Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin-Normand at Le Havre, John Brown & Co Ltd at Clydebank, then Costiera of Rio de Janeiro. He was appointed naval architect at Thornycroft in succession to his father in 1924 and spent over 30 years in this position. He retired to become honorary advisor to the firm in 1955. His published works included historical surveys of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects and Thornycroft shipbuilders to mark their centenaries in 1960 and 1964.