Edward L. Cochrane

Vice Admiral Edward Lull Ned Cochrane was a United States Navy officer and naval architect who served as Chief of the Bureau of Ships during World War II. In this capacity, he was directly responsible for the Navys massive shipbuilding and maintenance program from November 1942 until November 1946.

The son of retired Marine Brigadier General Henry Clay Cochrane , Edward Lull Cochrane was born at Mare Island, California in 1892. He entered the United States Naval Academy in 1910 and was commissioned as a Navy ensign upon graduation in 1914. During World War I, he served at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and transferred to the Navys Construction Corps. He graduated in 1920 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , with a Master of Science degree in Naval Architecture.

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