Surprize (1774)?, Carysfort (1766)

Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines, with some framing detail and longitudinal half breadth for a proposed 120ft, 28-gun, Sixth Rate Frigate, and for Carysfort (1766), as proposed, showing the best sailing draught of water. It is possible Surprize (1774) is the proposed Frigate but there is no actual evidence.

PB v2, f595 Carysfort (1766) not in Woolwich at all.

NMM, Progress Book, volume 5, folio 305, states that 'Surprize' was begun at Woolwich Dockyard on 5 September 1771 and launched on 13 April 1774. She was docked between 2 and 16 February 1775, and sailed fitted for sea on 15 April 1775. The Progress Book records that she was built of 'foreign oak'. Surprize then arrived in Plymouth dockyard on 19 December 1775 and was docked on 9 January 1776. She was undocked on the same day and sailed on 3 February 1776 having been refitted

Object Details

ID: ZAZ3286
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Date made: ca.1774
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 370 mm x 1404 mm