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Career
Benjamin Rosewell was apprenticed to Phineas Pett about 1683 at Chatham Dockyard. Pett was the 1st Assistant Master Shipwright and the son of Sir Phineas Pett First Resident Commissioner of Chatham Dockyard. Rosewell held the office of Purveyor at Chatham from 1689 to 1695. He was appointed 2nd Assistant Master Shipwright in 1695 and 1st Assistant Master Shipwright in 1699 at Chatham.

The following is a summary of his career as a ship builder: 1695 Appointed 2nd Assistant Master Shipwright at Chatham Dockyard 1699 Appointed 1st Assistant Master Shipwright at Chatham Dockyard 1702 Appointed Master Shipwright at Harwich Dockyard 1702 Appointed Master Shipwright at Plymouth Dockyard 1705 Appointed Master Shipwright at Chatham Dockyard '''1727 Appointed Master Shipwright at Chatham Dockyard. Renewed warrant.''' 1732 Appointed Master Shipwright at Sheerness Dockyard. 1732? Superannuated with a pension of £100 a year .
 * 1699 Launched Stirling Castle
 * 1703 Launched Rupert
 * 1704 Launched Plymouth
 * 1705 Launched Stirling Castle
 * 1706 Launched London
 * 1707 Launched Salisbury
 * 1707 Designed Mermaid
 * 1707 Launched Mermaid
 * 1708 Launched Chester
 * 1709 Launched Lion
 * 1710 Launched Vanguard
 * 1711 Launched Bonaventure
 * 1712 Launched Rose
 * 1715 Launched Sandwich
 * 1717 Launched Newark
 * 1718 Launched Norwich
 * 1719 Launched Swallow
 * 1721 Designed London
 * 1721 Launched London
 * 1721 Launched Colchester
 * 1721 Designed Hawke
 * 1721 Launched Hawke
 * 1722 Launched Plymouth
 * 1723 Launched Lenox
 * 1724 Launched Sunderland
 * 1725 Launched Supply
 * 1726 Launched Union
 * 1727 Launched Rye
 * 1729 Launched Royal Sovereign
 * 1732 Designed Spy
 * 1732 Launched Spy
 * 1737 Launched Gloucester

Governor of Hawkins Hospital Benjamin Rosewell is recorded as a Governor of Hawkins Hospital at Chatham in 1726 and 1734.