Dart (1796); Arrow (1796)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile, annotated with many notes in pencil relating to the fittings and fixtures for Dart (1796) and Arrow (1796), both 20-28-gun Ship Sloops 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. The plan includes pencil outlines of the keel blocks below the false keel. The unsually galley arrangement was not used after launch.

NMM, Progress Book, volume 5, folio 656, states that 'Arrow' arrived at Portsmouth Dockyard on 28 September 1796 and was docked on 4 October. She sailed having been fitted on 25 February 1797. She was further refitted between January and April 1798.
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: ZAZ3535
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Arrow (1796); Dart (1796)
Date made: 1796; 1798
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 302 mm x 947 mm