He was born on 4 May 1620, the eleventh child of many children to
Phineas Pett, shipbuilder to the King, and his wife Ann Nicholls. In 1647, he was appointed Master Shipwright at
Deptford Dockyard in place of
Peter, who moved to be Commissioner of
Chatham Dockyard. In the 1660s, he began building private yachts, over and above his Royal Navy commissions, as part of a current fashion, including a yacht for Sir
William Batten. He died suddenly in March 1668. ==Ships built==