Lieut.-Com. Robert Claude Gibbs, R.N., died on 10th June, 1949, at the age of 54.
He received an engineering training at the Royal Naval Colleges of Osborne and Dartmouth, and served at sea from January, 1913, and throughout the war in the Royal Navy as midshipman, sub-lieutenant and lieutenant.
In 1920 he left the Navy and was appointed engineer to Minerals Separation, Ltd., on testing and research work, and after three years went to Germany as engineer and later chief engineer to Central Europäische Schwimm Aufbereitungs A.G., Berlin, a company formed to introduce the Minerals Separation flotation process into Central Europe. He was there for nearly seven years, and returned in 1929 as engineer to the Dorr Co., London.
During the 1939-1945 war he rejoined the Royal Navy, retiring with the rank of lieutenant-commander to resume his work with the Dorr Co., which continued until his death.
Lieut.-Com. Gibbs was elected to Associateship of the Institution in 1931.
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