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'''Edward Allin''' (c.1720 – 1795) was an English shipwright to the Royal Navy mainly based at Portsmouth Dockyard and Chatham Dockyard. He is most notable as the master shipwright of {{HMS|Victory}}.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/collections/vessel/175750 | title=Victory, HMS | MIT Museum }}</ref>
==Life== He first appears in Royal Navy records as a Master Caulker at Chatham Dockyard in 1750. In 1751 he became Assistant Master Shipwright at Woolwich Dockyard but after only a few months moved back to Chatham Dockyard. Promoted to Master Shipwright in 1752 he took over Sheerness Dockyard then Woolwich in March 1753.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_crewman&id=23314 | title=Edward Allin (D.1795) }}</ref>
In 1755 he replaced Peirson Lock as Master Shipwright of Portsmouth (Peirson had succeeded to Joseph Allin in 1742.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://threedecks.org/index.php?display_type=show_appointment&appointmentid=10&locationid=6 | title=Master Shipwright at Portsmouth Dockyard }}</ref>
In 1762 he relocated to Chatham Dockyard with his role at Portsmouth being filled by Thomas Bucknall. He left Chatham in July 1767, pensioned off by the Royal Navy. Given this relatively early retiral he had possibly been injured and disabled.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C5898680 | title=Admiralty memorial for a pension for Edward Allin, master shipwright at Chatham dockyard }}</ref>
He relocated to the south of Ireland around 1770 and he (or his son) was declared a Freeman of Cork on 22 April 1784.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://corkrecords.com/images/freemen1710-1841.pdf|title=Alphabetical List of Freemen of the City of Cork |website=corkrecords.com|access-date=26 April 2024}}</ref>
He died in Cork in 1795.
==Ships built ==
*{{HMS|Dunkirk|1754|6}} 60-gun ship of the line launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1754 *{{HMS|Happy}} 8-gun sloop launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1754 *{{HMS|Squirrel|1755|6}} 20-gun ship launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1755 *{{HMS|Dorsetshire|1757|6}} 68-gun ship of the line launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1757 *{{HMS|Chatham|1758|6}} 50-gun ship of the line launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1758 (designed by his father Joseph Allin in his capacity as Surveyor to the Navy) *{{HMS|Pearl|1762|6}} 32-gun frigate launched at Chatham Dockyard in 1762 *{{HMS|Ramillies|1763|6}} 74-gun ship of the line launched at Chatham Dockyard in 1763 *{{HMS|Ferret|1763|6}} 6-gun cutter launched at Chatham Dockyard in 1763 *{{HMS|Victory}} 100-gun ship of the line launched at Chatham Dockyard in 1765 *{{HMS|London|1766|6}} 90-gun ship of the line launched at Chatham Dockyard in 1766
==Ships designed== *{{HMS|Royal George|1756|6}}<ref>{{cite web | url=https://images.rmg.co.uk/asset/18985/ | title=Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for Royal George (1756), as built as a 100-gun First Rate, three-decker. The alterations to the bowsprit and gun ports relate to Britannia, a 100-gun First Rate, three-decker, building at Portsmouth Dockyard. Signed by Edward Allin [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard, 1755-1762] }}</ref> *{{HMS|Montagu|1757|6}} designed in 1751
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