The Discovery as a hulk

Heightened with white and signed by artist, lower left. The ship shown is George Vancouver's 'Discovery' in her later career converted as a prison hulk in the Thames, apparently in the later part of it off Woolwich. It had done the same service off Sheerness for about ten years from conversion for that purpose there in 1808. See also PAD6034.

Object Details

ID: PAF5976
Type: Drawing
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer
Vessels: Discovery (1789)
Date made: 1789
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 193 x 276 mm; Mount: 406 mm x 555 mm