Melpomene (captured 1794)
Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board decoration and name in a cartouche on the counter, the sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Melpomene (captured 1794), a captured French Frigate, as taken off at Chatham Dockyard having been fitted as a 38-gun Fifth Rate Frigate. Note that the plan shows her with a fairly typical French layout of wheel abaft the mizzen and a single set of anchor bitts on the upper deck.
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Object Details
ID: | ZAZ2011 |
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Collection: | Ship Plans |
Type: | Technical drawing |
Display location: | Not on display |
Vessels: | Melpomene (captured 1794) |
Date made: | circa August 1795 |
Credit: | © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
Measurements: | Sheet: 509 mm x 1428 mm |
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