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Amazon (captured 1745); Myrmidon (1781)
Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board decoration and "Panther" in a cartouche, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and a longitudinal half-breadth for Amazon (captured 1745), a captured French frigate, as fitted at Plymouth as a 20-gun Sixth Rate Corvette. Her original French name was 'Panthere', although the name on the plan spells it with one 'e'.
The plan also includes pencil amendments relating to the Myrmidon (1781), a 24-gun Sixth Rate based on the Amazon.
NMM, Progress Book, volume 2, folio 414, states that the 'Amazon' was docked to be surveyed at Plymouth Dockyard, arriving on 6 August 1745 and launched on 13 September 1745.
The plan also includes pencil amendments relating to the Myrmidon (1781), a 24-gun Sixth Rate based on the Amazon.
NMM, Progress Book, volume 2, folio 414, states that the 'Amazon' was docked to be surveyed at Plymouth Dockyard, arriving on 6 August 1745 and launched on 13 September 1745.
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Object Details
| ID: | ZAZ4027 |
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| Collection: | Ship Plans |
| Type: | Technical drawing |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Vessels: | Amazon (captured 1745) |
| Date made: | Circa September 1745; Circa 1745-6 |
| Credit: | © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Sheet: 361 mm x 1062 mm |