Unknown 18-gun Sloop (no date)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the sheer lines with body lines and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for an unknown 18-gun Sloop (no date). Brian Lavery notes that this is an early example of the use of waterlines on a plan [see Lavery (ed.) Dean's Doctrine of Naval Architecture, 1670].

Object Details

ID: ZAZ4602
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Date made: Late 1600s
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 306 mm x 741 mm