Josiah Richard Perrett (25 February 1848 – 26 October 1918) was an English engineer who was chief naval architect of

Elswick Ordnance Company The Elswick Ordnance Company (sometimes referred to as Elswick Ordnance Works, but usually as "EOC") was a British armaments manufacturing company of the late 19th and early 20th century History Originally created in 1859 to separate William ...

. His warship designs included the Brazilian s and ''Rio de Janeiro'' (later ), and the Chilean s. He was born at

Plymouth Plymouth ( ) is a port city status in the United Kingdom, city and unitary authority in Devon, South West England. It is located on Devon's south coast between the rivers River Plym, Plym and River Tamar, Tamar, about southwest of Exeter and ...

. He attended the Royal School of Naval Architecture and joined the admiralty. In 1887, he left the admiralty to join

as first assistant to Sir Philip Watts, whom he succeeded in 1902 as chief architect. He died at

Babbacombe Babbacombe is a district of Torquay, Devon, England. It is notable for Babbacombe Model Village, the Babbacombe Theatre and its clifftop green, Babbacombe Downs, from which Oddicombe Beach is accessed via Babbacombe Cliff Railway. Frequent ...

, Torquay.

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British naval architects 1848 births 1918 deaths People from Plymouth, Devon English civil engineers {{UK-architect-stub