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.

Object Details

ID: ONE0001
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)
  • Warship Fittings Book, 1827-1843 (Technical Record) (ONE0001)