'Alcide' (1755)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board decoration and name in a cartouche, sheer lines with inboard detail (figurehead missing), and longitudinal half-breadth for' Alcide' (1755), a captured French Third Rate, prior to being fitted as a 64-gun Third Rate two-decker at Portsmouth Dockyard. 'Alcide' was docked at Portsmouth between 20 February and 7 March to be surveyed per Admiralty Order dated 20 December 1756. She was later fitted at Portsmouth between April and July 1757.

Signed by Edward Allin [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard, 1755-1762].

Reverse: Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the roundhouse, quarterdeck and forecastle, upper deck gun deck (lower deck), orlop deck, and fore and aft platforms for 'Alcide' (1755).

Object Details

ID: ZAZ1338
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Alcide (captured 1755)
Date made: circa 1757
People: Edward Allin, Edward
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 525 x 1465 mm