Prudent (1768)
A drawing showing inboard profile, orlop deck, hold and cross section of the Exeter Class 3rd rate 64 gun warship Prudent (1768) as a powder hulk, and notes regarding the similar conversion of the 3rd rate 64 gun warship Inflexible (1780). With the inscriptions:
-'Plan of the Prudent Floating Magazine shewing the manner in which the Inflexible Old ship of War should be fitted up to render her complete as a Temporary Floating magazine for containing gunpowder'
-'Received from the Mr Crew 5 March 1808'
-'Plan of the Prudent Floating Magazine shewing the manner in which the Inflexible Old ship of War should be fitted up to render her complete as a Temporary Floating magazine for containing gunpowder'
-'Received from the Mr Crew 5 March 1808'
Object Details
| ID: | NPD0535 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Drawing |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Vessels: | Prudent (1768) |
| Credit: | © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Sheet: 512 mm x 692 mm |
| Parts: | Folder |