Nightingale (1746)

Scale 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck, lower deck and orlop deck (platform) for Nightingale (1746), a 224-gun, Sixth Rate, as converted to a Recieving Ship for Impressed men. To lie off the Tower Wharf, London.

NMM, Progress Book, volume 2, folio 415, states that 'Nightingale' was surveyed on 15 July 1759 at Woolwich. She was fitted at Woolwich Dockyard to receive Impressed Men between 20 September and 2 October 1770. Volume 5, folio 335, states that Nightingale was docked at Woolwich on 17 April 1776 and undocked on 17 June 1776. She sailed on 2 November 1776 for the Tower, having been fitted as a Receiving Ship.

Object Details

ID: ZAZ3665
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Nightingale 1746
Date made: 1776
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: 630 mm x 895 mm