Sphinx (1775)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines and longitudinal half-breadth proposed (and approved) for Sphinx (1775), a 20-gun sixth Rate to be built at Portsmouth Dockyard. The plan includes a table of the mast and yard dimensions.

Signed by John Williams [Surveyor of the Navy, 1765-1784]

Object Details

ID: ZAZ3917
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Sphinx (1775)
Date made: 1773; 23 April 1773
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 492 mm x 1145 mm