Jacob Ackworth

Sir Jacob Ackworth or Acworth (1668–1749) was an English shipwright and ship designer employed by the Royal Navy.

As a designer he adopted Newtonian theories to create lighter and faster ships but this approach marginalised him with the very traditional dockyards and he spent his final years on the Navy Board as an advisor.

He served time on HMS Hope probably as apprentice ship's carpenter under Captain John Moore.

[3] From this point he appears involved in both design and build, beginning with the redesign of HMS Cambridge (1715).

He had six children by his first marriage and two by his second, including the unusually named Avice Ackworth who married a Mr Wheate.