Serpent (cancelled 1783)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines and longitudinal half-breadth for building the Serpent (cancelled 1783), a 16-gun Ship Sloop. The order was cancelled when the builder Phineas Jacobs of Sandgate failed (i.e. became bankrupt).

Signed by Edward Hunt [Surveyor of the Navy, 1778-1784].

Object Details

ID: ZAZ4375
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Serpent (cancelled 1783)
Date made: 1782; 4 December 1782
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 376 mm x 1015 mm