Mermaid (1784)

Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the headrail, head and proposed figurehead possibly for Mermaid (1784), a 32-gun Fifth Rate frigate. While the drawing is undated and unidentified, a comparison with the figurehead on SLR0318, the model of HMS Mermaid (1784), shows a similar stylistic layout of a mermaid holding an urn and a scaled dolphin at her tail. The diffferences may indicate it is a proposed replacement.

A full-length figurehead of a mermaid looking right, holding an urn above her head in her left hand. Her right hand is holding the tail of a scaled dolphin which is wrapped along her tail.

Object Details

ID: DIC0006
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Date made: late 18th century; early 19th century
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 105 mm x 81 mm
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