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'Director' (1784). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for building 'Director' (1784), a 64-gun Third Rate, two-decker. Note that the name in the Admiralty stamp has been altered from
23 August 1780
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'Director' (1784). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the framing profile (disposition) for 'Director' (1784), a 64-gun Third Rate, two-decker, building at Gravesend by Mr Cleverly. Note that the name in the Admiralty stamp has been altered
26 October 1780
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'Director' (1784). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for 'Director' (1784), a 64-gun Third Rate, two-decker, building at Gravesend by Mr William Cleverly. Note that the name in the Admiralty stamp has been altered from &#
30 September 1780
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'Scout' (1780). Plan showing the body plans, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for Scout (1780), as taken off. Also includes the mast and spar dimensions. From Tyne & Wear Archives Service, Blandford House, Blandford Square, Newca
1780
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. deck
1780
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. deck, orlop
1780
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. deck, quarter & forecastle
1780
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. foremast
1780
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. foremast. There are two documents marked ZAZ6676.1 and ZAZ6676.2 which can be viewed via the grey toggle to the right of the WHOLE field.
1780
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. frame
1780
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. Inboard profile plan
1780
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. lines
1780
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. lines & profile The drawing appears to be the design draught for 'Tisiphone' class fireships. The 'as built' sheer and profile of 'Comet', 1783, shows built-up bulwarks and other differences to this draught
1780
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. lines & profile
1780
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. Lower deck plan
1780
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. mast, main
1780
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. profile
1780
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. sheer & profile
1780
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. Upper deck plan
1780
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Belle Poule (1780). Scale 1:48. A plan showing the body plan, stern board outine with decorations and name in a cartouche on the stern counter, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, longitudinal half-breadth for Belle Poule (1780), a captured Fr
9 November 1780
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Cato (1782). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed (and approved) for building Cato (1782), a 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker, at Gravesend by Mr William Cleverley. Signed by Edward Hunt [Surveyor of
3 March 1780
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Cato (1782). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle proposed for Cato (1782), a 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker. The plan does not apply to Grampus (1782), as she did not have an enclosed quarterdeck (i.e. a poop).
27 November 1780
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Cato (1782); Grampus (1782). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the gun deck (lower deck) for Cato (1782) and Grampus (1782), both 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-deckers. The alterations in black refer to the Grampus as she did not have a quarterdeck. Plan ZAZ1636 sho
November 1780
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Cato (1782); Grampus (1782). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for Cato (1782), and also likely for Grampus (1782), both 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-deckers.
Circa December 1780
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Cato (1782); Grampus (1782). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck with for & aft platforms for Cato (1782) and Grampus (1782), both 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-deckers. The alterations relate to Grampus.
27 November 1780
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Cato (1782); Grampus (1782). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck proposed for Cato (1782) and Grampus (1782), 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker. The upper deck alterations relate to Grampus, as she did not have an enclosed quarterdeck (i.e. no poop de
23 December 1780
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Fire hearth for 64-gun Third Rate, two-decker warships. Scale: 1:16. Plan showing the plan, elevations and sections for a fire hearth, oven and copper for 64-gun Third Rate two-decker warships with 500 men. The plan includes a key to the hearth. A copy w
4 July 1780
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Fire hearth galley for 36-gun warships (1780). Scale: 1:16. Plan showing the plan, sections and elevations of a fire hearth and galley for 36-gun fifth Rate warships and 270 men. A copy was sent to the Navy Board. Reverse notes 'Shaded by Joseph Nor
4 August 1780
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Grampus (1782). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed (and approved) for building the Grampus (1782), a 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker at Liverpool by Mr John Fisher. Note that she does not have a p
3 March 1780
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Guay Trouin (captured 1780) [alternative spelling: DuGuay Trouin]. Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Guay Trouin (captured 1780), a captured
6 September 1780
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Inspector (1782). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed (and approved) for the Inspector (1782), a 16-gun Ship Sloop to be built at Wivenhoe.
20 April 1780
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Inspector (1782). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck and fore & aft platforms for the Inspector (1782), a 16-gun Ship Sloop.
Circa October 1780
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Inspector (1782). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck, foredeck and upper deck for Inspector (1782), a 16-gun Ship Sloop to be built at Wivenhoe. A copy was sent to Mr Game on 19 October 1780.
circa October 1780
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Inspector (1782). Scale: not shown. Plan showing the framing sections for Stations 20, 19, 17, 15, 13, 11, 9, 7, 5, and 3 for the Inspector (1782), a 16-gun Ship Sloop. Note that these differ from ZAZ4479. There is no evidence except for the Admiralty s
Circa 1780
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Inspector (1782). Scale: not shown. Plan showing the framing sections for Stations 20, 19, 17, 15, 13, 11, 9, 7, 5, and 3 for the Inspector (1782), a 16-gun Ship Sloop. The plan illustrates well her experimental nature, including the unusual fin-like bu
Circa 1780-1782
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Magnanime (1780). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Magnanime (1780), a 64-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as built at Deptford Dockyard.
18 November 1780
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Ontario (1780). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth of Ontario (1780), a 16-gun Brig Sloop launched at Carleton Island, Lake Ontario, 10 May 1780. Signed by J
Circa 1780
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San Carlos (captured 1779). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for San Carlos (captured 1779), a captured Spanish privateer, as taken off prior to being fitted as a 20-gun armed storeship. She was pierced for more guns than she carried under
22 September 1780
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Termagant (1780). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board decoration and sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, longitudinal half breadth for Termagant (1780), a 22-gun, Sixth Rate Ship Sloop, as built at Bristol by Mr Hilhouse. T
1780
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Termagant (1780). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline and some detail, sheer lines with inboard detail and figure head, longitudinal half breadth for Termagant (1780), a 22-gun, Sixth Rate Ship Sloop as built at Bristol by Mr H
1780
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Termagant (1780). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the quater deck, forecastle lower deck and upper deck platforms for Termagant (1780), a 22-gun, Sixth Rate Ship Sloop as built by Mr. Hilhouse. This plan has not been pin pinched.
1780
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Trusty (1782). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed (and approved) for building Trusty (1782), a 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker, at Bristol by Mr James Martin Hilhouse. A copy of this was sent to M
21 July 1780
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Veteran (1787). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for Veteran (1787), a 64-gun Third Rate, two-decker to be built at East Cowes by Mr Robert Fabian. Signed by John Williams [Surveyor of the Navy, 1765-17
20 September 1780
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'Flora' (1780). Plan showing the lower deck for Flora (1780). From Tyne & Wear Archives Service, Blandford House, Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JA.
Dated: 1780
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42ft Liberty and Swallow Boats. No scale. Plan showing the transom, sections, modified deck, and incomplete profile for 42ft Liberty and Swallow Boats fitted with a single forward-mounted gun, as proposed to be fitted by the Honourable Captain Sir George
Possibly between 1780 and 1799
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Carnatic (1783); Leviathan (1790); Colossus (1787); Minotaur (1793). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for the Carnatic (1783), and Leviathan (1790). Later the plan was used for Colossus (1787), and Minotaur (1793), all 74-gun Third Rate, two-
17 March 1780
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'Flora' (1780). Plan showing the upper deck for Flora (1780). From Tyne & Wear Archives Service, Blandford House, Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JA.
Dated: 14 April 1780
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'Flora'' (1780). Plan showing the quarter deck, and forecastle for Flora (1780). From Tyne & Wear Archives Service, Blandford House, Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JA.
Dated: 14 April 1780
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Section of a made mast at gun deck level for a main and foremast for a ship of each class. Scale: 1:12. A plan showing a section through the composite make up of a "made mast" at gun deck level for ships of 100, 90, 74, 64, 50, 44, 32, and 28 g
24 April 1780
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'Princessa' (1780), 'Diligente' (1780), 'Monarca' (1780). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the front and side elevations, and sections for the 'made masts' for 'Princessa' (1780), 'Diligente' (1780), ca
May to September 1780
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Proposed 'made' main masts for 28 gun ships (1780). No scale. Plan showing the plan for the proposed 'made' main mast with dimensions for a 28 gun ship, to be made from Danzig fir.
May 1780
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Gibraltar (captured 1780). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sternboard with decoration detail, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Gibraltar (captured 1780), a captured Spanish Third Rate, two-decker.
17 June 1780
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Gibraltar (captured 1780). Scale: 1:96. Plan showing the quarterdeck, forecastle, upper deck, gun deck (lower deck), and orlop deck with platforms for Gibraltar (captured 1780), a captured Spanish Third Rate, two-decker. The plan illustrates her as fitted
17 June 1780
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'Prince William' (captured 1780). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Prince William' (1780), a captured Spanish Third Rate, as taken off? at Portsmouth Dock
15 August 1780
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'Princessa' (1780). Scale: 1:48. Body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Princessa' (1780), a captured Spanish Third Rate, prior to fitting as a 70-gun Third Rate, two-decker. Signed by George Wh
15 August 1780
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San Carlos (captured 1779). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, stern board outline, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for San Carlos (captured 1779), a captured Spanish privateer, as taken off prior to being fitted
10 September 1780
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Dunkerquoise (fl.1780). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, and longitudinal half-breadth, as taken off 'in the River', for Dunkerquoise (captured 1780), a captured French Privateer.
November 1780
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