Centaur (captured 1759)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sternboard decoration detail with name on the counter in a cartouche, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Centaur (captured 1759), a captured French Third Rate, two-decker, as taken off at Chatham Dockyard. The plan illustrates the ship prior to being fitted as a British 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker.

NMM, Progress Book, volume 2, folio 633 states that Centaur arrived at Chatham Dockyard on 6 November 1759 and was docked on 6 December. She was undocked on 16 February 1760 and sailed on 30 May 1760 having been fitted.

Object Details

ID: ZAZ0730
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Centaure (1757)
Date made: circa December 1759; 1760
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 570 mm x 1713 mm