Dart (1796)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Dart (1796), a 20-28-gun Ship Sloop fitted with sliding keels. The plan shows the ship as built at Redbridge, Southampton, in 1796, and fitted at Portsmouth between October 1796 and February 1797.

Signed by Samuel Bentham [Inspector of Naval Works]. He also designed the Dart and its sister ship Arrow, launched in 1796 from the same yard.

NMM, Progress Book, volume 5, folio 656, states that 'Dart; arrived at Portsmouth Dockyard on 18 October 1796 and was docked on 20 November. She sailed having been fitted on 27 February 1797. She was further refitted at Portsmouth between June and December 1797.

Object Details

ID: ZAZ3533
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Dart (1796)
Date made: 1796; 1 June 1797
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 344 mm x 1205 mm