Reynard (1821)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the head, headrails, trail-board and figurehead for Reynard (1821), a 10-gun Brig Sloop.

The full-length figurehead is a fox at full stretch, its back legs resting on a scroll carving and its front paws on the top of the head’s knee.

Signed by Thomas Roberts [Master Shipwright, Pembroke Dockyard, 1815-1830]. The design was initialled and approved by Henry Peake [Surveyor of the Navy, 1806-1822].

Object Details

ID: DIC0081
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 9 November 1820
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 186 mm x 223 mm