Phaeton (1848)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the hold with sections through stations at A, B, C, D illustrating the barrel stowage, magazine, water tanks and stores for Phaeton (1848), a 50-gun large Frigate. The ship was built at Deptford but completed at Sheerness Dockyard. The plan includes a table of powder, shot, ballast and water quantities.

Signed by Samuel Read [Master Shipwright, Sheerness Dockyard, 1848-?] and G? Penney [possibly a shipwright at Sheerness]

Object Details

ID: NPB8949
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Phaeton (1848)
Date made: 8 April 1850
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 522 mm x 1437 mm