Tortoise (purchased 1804)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Tortoise (purchased 1804), a purchased East Indiaman and converted to a Fifth Rate Frigate, as taken off in 1841 having been fitted as a storeship at Chatham.

Signed by -?- Moore for the Master Shipwright (John Fincham), Chatham Dockyard.

Object Details

ID: ZAZ1954
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Barnaby, W.
Vessels: Tortoise (1784, purchased 1804)
Date made: 1842; 23 January 1842
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 540 mm x 1525 mm