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Career
[edit]Benjamin Rosewell was apprenticed to Phineas Pett about 1683 at Chatham Dockyard[1]. Pett was the 1st Assistant Master Shipwright and the son of Sir Phineas Pett [1] First Resident Commissioner of Chatham Dockyard. Rosewell held the office of Purveyor[nb 1] at Chatham from 1689 to 1695[2]. He was appointed 2nd Assistant Master Shipwright in 1695 and 1st Assistant Master Shipwright in 1699 at Chatham[3].
The following is a summary of his career as a ship builder:[3]
1695 Appointed 2nd Assistant Master Shipwright at Chatham Dockyard
1699 Appointed 1st Assistant Master Shipwright at Chatham Dockyard
- 1699 Launched Stirling Castle[nb 2]
1702 Appointed Master Shipwright at Harwich Dockyard
1702 Appointed Master Shipwright at Plymouth Dockyard
1705 Appointed Master Shipwright at Chatham Dockyard
- 1705 Launched Stirling Castle
- 1706 Launched London
- 1707 Launched Salisbury
- 1707 Designed Mermaid
- 1707 Launched Mermaid
- 1708 Launched Chester
- 1709 Launched Lion
- 1710 Launched Vanguard
- 1711 Launched Bonaventure
- 1712 Launched Rose
- 1715 Launched Sandwich
- 1717 Launched Newark
- 1718 Launched Norwich
- 1719 Launched Swallow
- 1721 Designed London
- 1721 Launched London
- 1721 Launched Colchester
- 1721 Designed Hawke
- 1721 Launched Hawke
- 1722 Launched Plymouth
- 1723 Launched Lenox
- 1724 Launched Sunderland
- 1725 Launched Supply
- 1726 Launched Union
1727 Appointed Master Shipwright at Chatham Dockyard. Renewed warrant.
- 1727 Launched Rye
- 1729 Launched Royal Sovereign
- 1732 Designed Spy
- 1732 Launched Spy
1732 Appointed Master Shipwright at Sheerness Dockyard.
1732? Superannuated with a pension of £100 a year[4].
- 1737 Launched Gloucester
Governor of Hawkins Hospital Benjamin Rosewell is recorded as a Governor of Hawkins Hospital at Chatham in 1726 and 1734.
- ^ a b Crawshaw, James D. (1999). The History of Chatham Dockyard: Chapters 1-8 (PDF) (First ed.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Isabel Garford. p. 5/31. ISBN 0953488802. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
- ^ Crawshaw2, James D. (1999). The History of Chatham Dockyard: Chapters 1-8 (PDF) (First ed.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Isabel Garford. p. 5/41. ISBN 0953488802. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b "Three Decks". Warships in the Age of Sail. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
- ^ Crawshaw, James D. (1999). The History of Chatham Dockyard: Chapters 1-8 (PDF) (First ed.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Isabel Garford. p. 5/20. ISBN 0953488802. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
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