Liverpool (1860)
Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the bow, headrails, trail-board and figurehead for Liverpool (1860), a 51-gun Fourth Rate screw frigate.
The three-quarter length bust of a female representation of the City of Liverpool. She is wearing a ‘mural crown’ over hair tied by a ribbon at the nape of her neck. The trail-board has the city’s crest carved just below the bust, incorporating the cormorant (referred to as the Liver Bird) holding a piece of seaweed in its beak within a shield.
Signed by James P. Peake [Master Shipwright, Devonport Dockyard, 1859-]. The plan includes an Admiralty Letter Book number S2419.
The three-quarter length bust of a female representation of the City of Liverpool. She is wearing a ‘mural crown’ over hair tied by a ribbon at the nape of her neck. The trail-board has the city’s crest carved just below the bust, incorporating the cormorant (referred to as the Liver Bird) holding a piece of seaweed in its beak within a shield.
Signed by James P. Peake [Master Shipwright, Devonport Dockyard, 1859-]. The plan includes an Admiralty Letter Book number S2419.
Object Details
| ID: | DIC0083 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Technical drawing |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Dickerson, Frederick |
| Date made: | 14 April 1860 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 263 mm x 346 mm |