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 | | Perhaps one of England's greatest shipwrights, Phineas Pett (1570 - 1647), lived for ten years after the construction of one of the world's greatest ships, the HMS Sovereign of the Seas was built and launched by his son Peter. |
 | | Phineas Pett's innovations were perhaps to be finally realized in the designs of his son Peter Pett for the Frigate a design of English shipwrightry worthy of Mathew Baker. |
 | | It is the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world; HMS Victory, although older, is maintained in drydock. |
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