Orestes (captured 1781)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail and scroll figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Orestes (captured 1781), a captured Dutch privateer as fitted as an 18-gun Brig Sloop. The plan is undated but was fitted like this in 1782 before being repaired and reconfigured in 1789 (see ZAZ3773).

NMM, Progress Book, volume 5, folio 366, states that 'Orestes, was at Portsmouth, Plymouth and Deptford Dockyards between February 1782 and August 1788 for repairs. At Portsmouth Dockyard between 4 October and 18 October she was fitted as a Fireship. She foundered in November 1799.

Object Details

ID: ZAZ3774
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Orestes (captured 1781)
Date made: ca.1780; 1782-1789
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 339 mm x 928 mm