Swift (1783)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Swift (1783), a captured French merchant ship, as taken off and fitted as an 8-gun Brig Sloop for foreign service. The plan also records the spar and mast dimensions.

Signed by Adam Hayes [Master Shipwright, Deptford Dockyard, 1755-1785 (died)].

Object Details

ID: ZAZ4854
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Swift (captured 1783)
Date made: 3 December 1783
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 320 mm x 721 mm