San Carlos (captured 1779)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, stern board outline, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for San Carlos (captured 1779), a captured Spanish privateer, as taken off prior to being fitted as a 20-gun armed storeship. She was pierced for more guns than she carried under British ownership. According to David Lyon she had been captured mounting 50-guns.

Signed by John Henslow [Master Shipwright, Plymouth Dockyard, 1775-1784].

Object Details

ID: ZAZ1795
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: San Carlos (captured 1779)
Date made: 10 September 1780; 1780
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 514 mm x 1365 mm