Lyme (1748)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profiles and plan views (stern to main mast and main bitts to stempost) for Lyme (1748), a 24-gun (later 28-gun) Sixth Rate frigates building by Mr Holland at Deptford Dockyard. The plan includes some of the proposed alterations in green ink from ZAZ3595 and has references referring to the various interior features on the after platform and lower deck.

NMM, Progress Book, volume 2, folio 381, states that an Admiralty Order dated 2 August 1748 was issued to call the new ship 'Lyme'. She was begun at Deptford Dockyard on 24 September 1747 and launched on 10 December 1748. The 'Lyme' sailed on 8 February 1749 having been fitted at a total cost of £12,282.0s.1d.

Object Details

ID: ZAZ3594
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Lyme (1748)
Date made: Circa August 1748
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 388 mm x 676 mm
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