Diligence (1756)

Scale: 1:96. A plan showing the quarterdeck, forecastle, upper deck, and fore & aft platforms for Diligence (1756), a 10-gun two-masted sloop, as taken off at Sheerness Dockyard where the ship was refitted as a receiving ship, but re-registered in August 1779 as a fireship and renamed Comet, and then fitted as a fireship between September and November 1779.

Signed by John Jenner [Master Shipwright, Sheerness Dockyard, March 1779-April 1779].

Object Details

ID: ZAZ5014
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Diligence (1756)
Date made: Circa June 1778
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 248 mm x 377 mm