Proposed new method of fixing keels to 74 gun ships

1:24. Plan showing a section illustrating the present method of fixing the keel to 74 gun, Third Rates, and a section illustrating the proposed method of fixing the keel to a 74 gun ship, where the ship is secure even with the loss of the keel.

Signed by Oliver Lang [Assistant to the Surveyors of the Navy, c1817].

Section No. 2 relates to the profiles on plan ZAZ6798.

Object Details

ID: ZAZ6897
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 11 December 1817
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 340 mm x 512 mm