Beauchamp Tower Corporation

Mission Statement

To preserve United States World War II history in such a way as to enhance the training and education of today's emergency response community...

Description

Our organization is currently restoring and preserving the last of the remaining World War II ships and equipment to build a maritime museum. These ships (18 in all) will be used to provide a self supporting, emergency response training platform for communities that canot afford state of the art emergency response training. Ships that once protected the United States from "enemies from without" will once again return to service to protect the United States from "enemies from within". Ships that are to be restored include: Submarine Tenders, Repair ship, Fletcher Class Destroyer, Liberty ship, Victory ships, Attack Transports, Troop Transport, LST's, LSM's, Fleet Tankers, and more....

Address: 6223 Hwy. 90 #182
Milton, FL 32570
Contact:
Ward Brewer
Phone: 850-623-9083 Website: http://www.btcorp.us
Interest Area: Arts & Culture, Community, Computers & Technology, Emergency & Safet


Ward W. Brewer II, Founder and CEO

Pensacola Bay Ecosystem Management Advisory Council
6223 Hwy. 90Suite 182
Milton, FL 32570
(850) 623-9083
Tower1@gulf.net

Mr. Brewer grew up near Greensboro, North Carolina and studied nuclear engineering at the University of Tennessee.With over 12 years experience in management consulting and applied high technology, Mr. Brewer worked as a consultant for corporations such as Nippondenso, Panasonic and the RSA's Energia, while also providing technical support for a National Geographic Special.Business eventually moved him to Milton, Florida where he has lived since 1996.Mr. Brewer served as the Technical Advisory Committee's Chairman of the Santa Rosa and Escambia County's environmental oversight committee: The Bay Area Resource Council from 1997-1998.In 1998, at the request of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (EMAC), Mr. Brewer founded the Pensacola Bay Ecosystem Management Advisory Council.In just two years, Pensacola Bay EMAC’s efforts have been nationally recognized and the organization has received several public service awards including the Governor’s Council for Sustainable Florida Leadership Award-the first environmental organization in the Panhandle of Florida to have received this award.

Mr. Brewer currently serves on several boards and committees serving the environment, education, and various social causes. He is a nationally red-carded Wildland Firefighter, and when not fighting wildfires, volunteers his time as a search & rescue/fire fighter with the Munson Volunteer Fire Department.

HISTORY

Resurrecting Ghosts

Operation Enduring Service


Beauchamp Tower- (pronounced "beecham") - Henry III  and his son, Edward I, are to be attributed to the creation of the Beauchamp Tower. Henry III is responsible for many of the towers and structures in the Tower of London, with eight wall towers built during the latter part of his reign. It was during Edward's reconstruction of the western section that he replaced a twin-towered gatehouse built by Henry with the Beauchamp Tower around 1275-81.

Architecturally, the large amount of brick used, as opposed to solely that of stone, was innovative at its time for castle construction. The tower takes its name from Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, imprisoned 1397-99 by Richard II. The three-storey structure was used often for prisoners of high rank.

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Beauchamp Tower (1845 – 1904) was an English inventor and engineer who is chiefly known for his discovery of full-film or hydrodynamic lubrication. In 1882 he was appointed by the Institute of Mechanical Engineering to study high-speed bearings and demonstrated that with a suitable supply of lubricating oil the surfaces of the bearings were separated by a continuous film of lubricant which prevented them from ever coming into contact. This fact is of crucial importance to the design of high-speed machinery.

Tower also constructed an unconventional spherical steam engine which was praised by contemporary experts and saw service powering carriage lighting dynamos on the locomotives of the Great Eastern Railway.

Tower also invented a slide-rule whose logarithmic scales were printed on metallic tapes, which were wound and unwound from one roller to another.   From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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