Vice Admiral Sir Philip Alexander Watson KBE, LVO (7 October 1919 – 8 December 2009) was a senior Royal Navy officer, rising to the rank of vice-admiral.

He spent two years with the radio section at Malta Dockyard, before becoming electrical officer in HMS Decoy in 1954.

Watson spent two years from 1957 as Electrical Officer on board HM Yacht Britannia,[2] for which he was made a member of the Royal Victorian Order.

[2] In 1967 he became captain of HMS Collingwood, but by 1969 he was back at Bath as deputy director of Engineering (Electrical) in the Ship Department.

He remained active in the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and the City of Oxford Society of Model Engineers.