Hamadryad (1823); Thisbe (1824)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck for Hamadryad (1823), and Thisbe (1824), both 46-gun Fifth Rate Frigates building at Pembroke Dockyard. The plan illustrates in part some of the experimental diagonal deck planking that Seppings was advocating in ship construction.

Initialled by Joseph Tucker [Surveyor of the Navy, 1813-1831] and Robert Seppings [Surveyor of the Navy, 1813-1832].

Object Details

ID: ZAZ2021
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Hamadryad (1823); Thisbe (1824)
Date made: 1821; 31 October 1821
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 362 mm x 1162 mm