Warship Fittings Book, 1827-1843
Various scales. 25 page Royal Dockyard fittings book, likely to relate to Woolwich Dockyard due to the provenance of the Mandy family. The book includes fitting half-ports, ring and eye bolts, various boat davit designs, mizzen bitts, chain cable compressor plan and elevation, studding yard fittings, body plan and sheer lines for an 18-gun Symonds design sloop, various rail shape outlines, the layout of magazine light boxes, hammock stantions, fitting scuppers on the 80-gun two-decker Vanguard (1835), the construction of the heads (bow) of Agamemnon (1849), Vanguard (1835), Constance (1846) and Gorgon (1837).
The drawings range in dates from 1827 to 1843 and are not in chronological order.
The drawings range in dates from 1827 to 1843 and are not in chronological order.
Object Details
ID: | ONE0001 |
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Type: | Technical Record |
Display location: | Not on display |
Date made: | Circa 1846 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
Measurements: | Overall: 370 mm x 280 mm x 20 mm |
Parts: |
Box containing an Admiralty Fittings Book, c1826-1843 (Technical drawing)
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