John Tippetts

He was born in Dursley in Gloucestershire in 1622 the son of Richard Tippetts (1600–1663).

[1] He is first recorded as a Royal Navy employee in April 1650 as a Master Shipwright at Portsmouth Dockyard.

[2] In 1668 he was appointed Resident Commissioner at Portsmouth Dockyard, a role overseeing dock improvements and repairs, and an intermediary between the Admiralty (Surveyor of the Navy) and the shipwrights.

In 1672 he was appointed Surveyor of the Navy, noted in the diary of Samuel Pepys.

[1] His position at the Admiralty was filled by Edmund Dummer who had been an apprentice shipwright under him at Portsmouth.