'Project' (1806)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan for the 'Project' (1806). The plan also depicts a modified midship section, sheer lines with inboard detail showing the mortar beds, a longitudinal half-breadth, and upper deck plan the ship.

The 'Project' was a seventy foot mortar vessel, and the plans show a design proposed by William Congreve, Jnr.

Note that she was double-ended with rudders at both ends, and had sixteen oar ports, and symmetrical rigging (main mast on the midships and the fore/mizzen equidistant).

Signed by William Congreve, Jnr [Designer].

Object Details

ID: ZAZ5755
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 5 August 1805
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 478 x 740 mm