Adder (1797)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile, upper deck, and lower deck with after platforms showing the proposed alterations and lengthening by 22ft for Adder (1797), a 14-gun brig-rigged gun vessel fitted with three sliding keels. While Assault is mentioned on the reverse of the plan, the ship was not lengthened, although the Adder was based on the same design (Acute class).

NMM, Progress Book, volume 3, folio 144, states that 'Adder' was renamed from 'No. 17', and lengthened at Nicholson Yard between May and June 1798.
NMM, Progress Book, volume 3, folio 137, states that 'Assault' was renamed from 'No. 4', and was not lengthened in 1798.

Object Details

ID: ZAZ4976
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Adder (1797); Assault (1797)
Date made: 1798
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 507 mm x 664 mm