John Kermack McBain
John Kermack McBain ( -1929)
1929 Obituary [1]
JOHN KERMACK MCBAIN served his apprenticeship with the Caledon Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Dundee, and subsequently spent seven years at sea in the service of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company of Shanghai.
From 1909 to 1911 he was engaged as a fitter at Messrs. John Brown and Company's Clydebank works.
He then became principal of the Marine Engineering School, Aberdeen, until 1915, and was instrumental in preparing 200 successful candidates for the Board of Trade examinations.
He afterwards joined Messrs. G. and J. Weir at their Cathcart works.
Five years later he went to Constantinople for Messrs. Vickers-Armstrongs as chief engineer of the arsenal and docks.
In 1924 he entered into partnership as a consulting engineer in Manchester, but in the following year he left Manchester and returned to Dundee, where his death occurred on 16th February 1929.
He became an Associate Member of the Institution in 1925.