Frederick Alfred Greaves
Frederick Alfred Greaves (c1895-1958)
1958 Obituary [1]
THE death occurred in Venezuela on March 21, of Mr. Frederick Alfred Greaves partner in the firm of Rendel Palmer and Tritton, consulting engineers. He was sixty-three.
Mr. Greaves graduated at London University in 1914. After working for a year on the Tilbury main dock extension he served in France in the Royal Engineers during the first world war.
He joined Rendel, Palmer and Tritton in 1921 and was taken into partnership in 1946. During the whole of his career Mr. Greaves was chiefly associated with the design and construction of dock and harbour works. His early experiences included the design of work for Ridham, Workington and West India Docks, Takoradi and Haifa Harbour.
From 1929 to 1938 he was seconded to the Palestine Government on the construction of Haifa harbour and oil dock where he became chief assistant engineer.
Among other works he was subsequently mainly responsible for remedial works for Burrinjuck dam, New South Wales, and the design of the Mashur oil port development in the Persian Gulf.
During the last war he carried out various works for War Department storage depots. After becoming a partner in his firm he was responsible for the planning of the Lackenby docks development for the Tees Conservancy Commission and the construction of oil jetties in the river, a large Air Ministry storage depot and various projects for ports at home and abroad.
For the last four years he developed plans for the reconstruction of Cammell Laird's ship-building and repair yards at Birkenhead, including a tanker cleaning berth, a large dry dock, a building dock and reconstruction of large slipways. Mr. Greaves was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and of the Association of Consulting Engineers.
1958 Obituary [2]
FREDERICK ALFRED GREAVES, B.Sc.(Eng.), M.I.C.E., who was born on 11 October, 1894, died on 21 March, 1958.
Educated at West Ham Municipal Secondary School and West Ham Technical College, he obtained his degree at London University in 1914. He began his professional career as Assistant Engineer on the Tilbury Main Docks Extension. From 1916 to 1919, while serving in the Royal Engineers, he was granted a commission. After military service he was Assistant Engineer to J. Walston Twinberrow, the Consulting Engineer on the layout and design of a shipbuilding yard for Ghent, Belgium. In 1921 he joined the staff of Messrs Rendel, Palmer & Tritton, Consulting Engineers, and worked on the design of the extension to Lonsdale Dock, Workington, and the reconstruction of the dock walls for Ridham Dock. For the latter work he became Resident Engineer in 1923. In 1925 he undertook, as Assistant Engineer, the design of various works for the construction of the Takoradi Harbour, Gold Coast. Later, he supervised the machinery subcontracts for the Tilbury New Entrance Lock and Dry Dock, and also for the West India Dock Entrance. In 1929 he was appointed Assistant Engineer on the design of, and in 1932, Senior Assistant Engineer on the construction of, Haifa Harbour and its equipment; in 1933 he became Chief Assistant Engineer. In 1939, at the head office of Messrs Rendel, Palmer & Tritton, he was Engineer in Charge of the preparation of the contract and designs for the Riverside Quay, Tyne Improvement Commission,and the design and construction schemes of Mashur Oil Port Development in the Persian Gulf. During the 1939-45 war he carried out a variety of work for War Department Storage Depots.
He was made a partner in the firm of Messrs Rendel, Palmer & Tritton in 1946, and retired from active work in November, 1957.
Elected an Associate Member in 1923, he was transferred to the class of Members in 1941