'Boscawen' (1844)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck for 'Boscawen' (1844), a 70-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted at Chatham Dockyard as a Guard Ship.
On the reverse is a plan showing the hold with sections for 'Boscawen' (1844), a 70-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as fitted at Chatham Dockyard as a Guard Ship.

NMM, Progress Book, volume 6, folio 195, states that 'Boscawen' (1844) was being built at Woolwich Dockyard between January 1826 and her launch on 3 April 1844. She was then moved to Sheerness Dockyard, arriving on 4 April 1844 to be fitted for ordinary, which was completed on 26 September 1848. 'Boscawen' arrived at Chatham Dockyard on 3 February 1851 to be fitted as a guard ship, completing on 16 May 1851.

Object Details

ID: ZAZ0945
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Harding, J.
Vessels: Boscawen (1844)
Date made: 1851
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 455 x 1276 mm