Cornwallis (purchased 1805)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck for Cornwallis (purchased 1805), a 50-gun Fifth Rate 'spar-decked' Frigate, as refitted from a storeship at Woolwich Dockyard. The plan records the ship under her later name of Akbar, having been renamed in February 1811. The later alterations in pencil relate to an order for an additional cabin for the Fifth Lieutenant dated February 1815. It is unknown if these alterations were undertaken.

Object Details

ID: ZAZ1764
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Cornwallis (purchased 1805)
Date made: circa December 1813; 1811
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 312 mm x 1140 mm