Ernest Cox

<p>Ernest Frank Guelph Cox (1883–1959) was a British engineer, with knowledge in electrical and mechanical engineering, which he notably deployed in <a href="/facts/Marine_salvage/Uw2QvUTj">marine salvage</a>. Between 1924 and 1931 his Cox & Danks Shipbreaking Co. successfully raised 35 ships of the <a href="/facts/German_Imperial_Navy/wNhU6Hlo">German Imperial Navy</a> <a href="/facts/High_Seas_Fleet/6YClQGHo">High Seas Fleet</a> that had been <a href="/facts/Scuttling_of_the_German_fleet_at_Scapa_Flow/pSs8429M">scuttled</a> at <a href="/facts/Gutter_Sound/gB50FlTu">Gutter Sound</a>, <a href="/facts/Scapa_Flow/PBDsXQmA">Scapa Flow</a>, in 1919. A tough but caring employer, after a series of fatalities and accidents to his employees, Cox sold his marine salvaging business to the <a href="/facts/Alloa_Shipbreaking_Company/Qxw1B3j0">Alloa Shipbreaking Company</a> in 1932. He remained a consultant to the <a href="/facts/British_Admiralty/wqcXukJs">British Admiralty</a> throughout his remaining career, and retired in the early 1950s after selling his profitable <a href="/facts/Scrap_metal/lPWqt9vd">scrap metal</a> business to <a href="/facts/Metal_Industries_Group/Qxw1B3j0">Metal Industries Group</a>.
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Ernest Cox