Penguin (captured 1795)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline and some decoration, the sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Penguin (captured 1795), a captured Dutch brig. The plan illustrates her as fitted in her British configuration as a 16-gun Brig Sloop although she retains her Dutch name of Comeet on the plan. The plan includes a table of the mast and yard dimensions.

Signed by Edward Tippett [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard, 1793-1799].

Object Details

ID: ZAZ4381
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Penguin (captured 1795)
Date made: 1796; 8 January 1796
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 334 mm x 918 mm