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Peter Pett (shipwright, died 1672)

Peter Pett and the Sovereign of the Seas.
Painting by Peter Lely, 1637[1]

Peter Pett (6 August 1610 – 1672) was an English Master Shipwright and Second Resident Commissioner of Chatham Dockyard. He protected his scale models and drawings of the King's Fleet during the Dutch Raid on the Medway, in Kent in June 1667, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, which was otherwise disastrous to the British Royal Navy.


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