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Thames shipyards in 1650s

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Purpose of page

The MarineLives project is seeking to link and enhance HCA 13/71, not just to transcribe it.

Thames shipyards feature in a number of HCA 13/71 cases and depositions.

All associates, facilitators, advisors and PhD Forum members are encouraged to contribute to this page from their knowledge of the material, and from their broader knowledge and interest in the topic.

• Which Thames shipyards can we identify in cases and depositions in HCA 13/71 by location and ownership?
• What can we learn about their working practices?
• What can we learn about their economics?
• What can we learn about the type of work they undertook, and the type of customers and ships they worked with?

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Peter Pett

The owners of the ship the Ruth were involved in a dispute about the alleged non-payment for sheathing provided to the Ruth by the deceased Peter Pett’s shipyard.

Peter Pett (b. ?, d. 1652), was of Deptford, Kent. He was a master ship-builder at the Deptford yard from XXX till his death in 1652. This Peter Pett was half-cousin of Commissioner Phineas Pett (b. 1570, d. 1647), master-shipwright, Chatham 1605-29, Navy Commissioner, Chatham 1630-47^[2]

Edward T(h)ompson, brother of the aggressive merchant Maurice T(h)ompson, was commander of the Ruth, one of Maurice Thompson’s ships. The ship’s recorded voyages included private trading in the East Indies in the years XXX – XXXX.

Edward’s deposition includes details of working practises at Pett’s yard:

• "From time to time paid all the worke men every Satturday night during the continuance of the said worke namely carpenters, cawkers, seamen and others, and discharged all wages…and all that was donne while shee was in the dock of Peter Pett deceased, saving two sheathings that were donne by the said Mr Pett by XXX XXXXXX…"

- HCA 13/71 f.219r Case: Pett against the Ruth and Maurice Tompson and others; Deposition: 1. Edward Tompson of Shadwell in the County of Middlesex Mariner, aged 49 yeeres; Date: 10/05/1656^[3]

Assessment of storm damage by shipwrights

Two shipwrights, the twenty-eight year old Henry Berrie of Redriff, Surrey, and the more experienced William Sherwood, likewise from Redriff, were employed to view storm damage to the ship the Samuell (CHECK).

• "shee cannot bee made firme and fitt to undertake a voyage without takeing out her whole stemme (part whereof yet remaynes)"

- HCA 13/71 f.502v Case: Lawe against Lee; Deposition: 3. Henry Berrie of Rederiff in the County of Surrey Shipp wright aged eight and twenty yeares; Date: 26/02/1656^[4]

• "the sayd shipps head and forecastle and stemme were broken downe and five of her beames of her upper deck and her upper deck it selfe alsoe broken downe and shee otherwise bruised and hurt"

1. ↑ Electronic link to a digital source
2. ↑ PROB 11/224 Bowyer 196-244 Will of Peter Pett of Deptford, Kent 18 August 1652; see also PROB 11/362 Bath 1-59 Will of Ann Pett, Widow of Woolwich, Kent 07 January 1680; Latham & Mathews, The diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion (?London, 1983), pp. 325-326
3. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.219r
4. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.502v
5. ↑ HCA 13/71 f.502v