Escorte (captured 1757)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail and longitudinal half-breadth with upper deck detail for Escorte (captured 1757), a captured French privateer prior to being fitted as a 14-gun Ship Sloop. She was pierced for nine guns per side and five oars. Note the swivel gun stocks along the waist.

Reverse: Scale 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck and forward platform for Escorte (captured 1757).

Date: NMM, Progress Book, volume 2, folio 627, states that the 'Escorte' was at Woolwich Dockyard between May and July 1757.

Object Details

ID: ZAZ4269
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Escort (captured 1757)
Date made: Circa May-July 1757; 1756
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 325 mm x 911 mm