Cormorant (captured 1781)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, stern board outline with decoration detail, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Cormorant (captured 1781), a captured American privateer, as fitted at Plymouth dockyard as a 12-gun Ship Sloop.

Signed by John Henslow [Master Shipwright, Plymouth Dockyard, 1775-1784]

Reverse: Quarterdeck, forecastle, upper deck and fore & aft plaforms with table of Mast and Yard dimenions for Cormorant (captured 1781).

Object Details

ID: ZAZ4532
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Cormorant (captured 1781); Rattlesnake fl.1781 (American, captured)
Date made: 1782; 31 August 1782
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 442 mm x 954 mm