Isaac Watts (1797–1876) was an early British

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. Together with Chief Engineer Thomas Lloyd, he designed HMS ''Warrior'', the world's first armour-plated iron-hulled warship. When he retired his position as

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was taken by Edward Reed. The grave of Isaac Watts in the churchyard of St Peter-in-Thanet, Kent

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1797 births 1876 deaths British naval architects 19th-century British businesspeople {{UK-navy-stub