SIR PHILIP WATTS RETIRES.
MRECTOII OF NAVAL GON-siu-tacTioir. (Receded 9,30 a.m.) LONDON, July E>l Sir Philip Watts, who has; held-the post of Director of NaviJ Coas tructton since
1910, has resigned. } Sir Philip Watts, -who is 61 years of age, was educated at the College of Naval Architecture, and wa? a axnstractor at the Admiralty till 1895, whan he became naval architect and di ructor of the war-ship-building Departmtsit of Armstrong, Whitworth, and Co., rwrigning that appointment to take up tlhe Chi«;f Directorship for the Admiralty ben years ago. He has thus been the respcoisAble desig.aer of the British Navy dnring' tfye Dreadnought era, which, according to the "Pall Mall . Gazette," is now about to close.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 162, 10 July 1911, Page 5
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