page_title: Woolwich Dockyard
section_title: Master shipwright, Woolwich Dockyard
hierarchical_section_title: Woolwich Dockyard / History / Administration of the dockyard / Master shipwright, Woolwich Dockyard
caption_attribution_description: English: Ruby (1776) Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board decoration, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Ruby (1776), 64-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as built at Woolwich Dockyard. Signed by Nicholas Phillips [Master Shipwright, Woolwich Dockyard, 1773-1778]. RUBY 1776
context_page_description: Woolwich Dockyard was an English naval dockyard along the river Thames at Woolwich in north-west Kent, where many ships were built from the early 16th century until the late 19th century. William Camden called it 'the Mother Dock of all England'. By virtue of the size and quantity of vessels built there, Woolwich Dockyard is described as having been 'among the most important shipyards of seventeenth-century Europe'. During the Age of Sail, the yard continued to be used for shipbuilding and repair work more or less consistently; in the 1830s a specialist factory within the dockyard oversaw the introduction of steam power for ships of the Royal Navy. At its largest extent it filled a 56-acre site north of Woolwich Church Street, between Warspite Road and New Ferry Approach; 19th-century naval vessels were fast outgrowing the yard, however, and it eventually closed in 1869. The former dockyard area is now partly residential, partly industrial, with remnants of its historic past having been restored.
context_section_description: Post holders include:
  Peter Pett, 1630–1652
  Christopher Pett, 1652–1668
  Jonas Shish, 1668–1675
  Phineas Pett, 1675–1678
  Thomas Shish, 1678–1685
  Joseph Lawrence, 1686–1697
  Samuel Miller, 1697–1699
  William Lee, 1700–1701
  Joseph Allin, November–March 1705
  Richard Stacey, 1705–1709
  Jacob Ackworth, 1709–1714
  John Naish, 1714–1715
  John Hayward, 1715–1727
  John Hayward, 1727–1741
  John Holland, 1742–1745
  Thomas Fellowes, 1746–1752
  Thomas Slade Thomas, May 1752 – June 1752
  Adam Hayes, June 1752 – February 1753
  Edward Allin, March 1753 – December 1755
  Israel Pownoll, December 1755 – May 1762
  Joseph Harris, June 1762 – May 1767.
  William Gray, July 1767 – July 1773
  Nicholas Phillipps, 1773–1778
  George White, January–April 1779
  John Jenner, April 1779 – December 1782
  Henry Peake, December 1782 – November 1785
  Martin Ware, December 1785 – March 1787
  John Nelson, March 1787 – March 1790
  William Rule, April–August 1790
  John Tovery, 1793–1801
  Edward Sison, 1801–1816
  Henry Canham, April 1816 – July 1826
  Oliver Lang, 1826–1853
  William M. Rice, April 1853–1859
  George Turner, July 1859–1866
caption: Designs for HMS Ruby (1776) signed N. Phillipps, Master Shipwright
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