Gorgon (1785); Charon (1783)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the longitudinal half-breadth of the Gorgon (1785), a 44-gun Fifth Rate, two-decker, as fitted as a troopship, and with alterations for fitting the Charon (1783), a 44-gun Fifth Rate, two-decker, possibly as an Hospital Ship, at Plymouth Dockyard. According to the Progress Book, volume 5, folio 208, HMS Gorgon was fitted at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1790 for Foreign Service, suggesting that this plan was copied from the set for Gorgon, and altered for Charon.

Object Details

ID: ZAZ1999
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Charon (1783); Gorgon (1785)
Date made: 1790; 24 July 1790
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 195 mm x 938 mm