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Biddeford (1727) [alternative spelling - Bideford]; Squirrel (1727); Flamborough (1727); Experiment (1727). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Bideford (1727), Squirrel (1727),
15 April 1727
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Defence (1763); Kent (1762); Cornwall (1761); Arrogant (1761). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with quarter gallery decorations, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed for 'Defence (1763), Kent' (1762), 'Cornwall'
15 January 1759
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Orpheus (1774). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile plan proposed for Orpheus (1774), a 32-gun, Fifth Rate Frigate, as built at Harwich by Mr Brs Bernard and Turner. Signed John Williams (Surveyor of the Navy)
15 October 1771
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'Polyphemus' (1782); 'Repulse' (1780). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with stern-quarter decoration, and longitrudinal half-breadth proposed for 'Polyphemus' (1782), and later for 'Repulse' (17
15 December 1773
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Atalanta (1775). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed (and approved) for Atalanta (1775), a 14-gun Ship Sloop to be built at Sheerness.
15 December 1773
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Galatea (1776); Daphne (1776); Camilla (1776). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed for Galatea (1776), Daphne (1776) and Camilla (1776), all 20-gun Ship Sloops. The mast and yard dimensions are th
15 December 1773
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Unknown rowing Frigate (circa 1775). Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail and stern quarter decoration, and longitudinal half-breadth for an unknown 125ft three-masted rowing Frigate (circa 1775). The plan dimensions and the type
15 December 1775
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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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Foudroyant (1798). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed (and approved) for building Foudroyant (1798), an 80-gun Third Rate, two-decker. Signed by John Henslow [Surveyor of the Navy, 1784-1806].
15 May 1788
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Ocean (1805). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the profile proposed (and approved) for lengthening the 'Ocean' (1805) a 98-gun Second Rate, three-decker. The plan also includes other alterations from 1798 and some pencil details illustrating her cut dow
15 June 1797
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'Impregnable' (1810). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the gun deck (lower deck) for 'Impregnable' (1810), a 90-gun Second Rate, three-decker, building at Chatham Dockyard. The plan includes pencil outlines of deck planking. Signed by John H
15 May 1798
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'Impregnable' (1810). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for 'Impregnable' (1810), a 90-gun Second Rate three-decker building at Chatham Dockyard. The plan includes diagonal riders and bracing, which may be a later addition t
15 May 1798
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'Impregnable' (1810). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the middle deck for 'Impregnable' (1810), a 90-gun Second Rate, three-decker, building at Chatham Dockyard. The plan includes pencil outlines of deck planking. Signed by John Henslow [Sur
15 May 1798
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'Impregnable' (1810). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the orlop deck with fore and aft platforms for 'Impregnable' (1810), a 90-gun Second Rate, three-decker, building at Chatham Dockyard. The plan includes pencil annotations relating to the
15 May 1798
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'Impregnable' (1810). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the quarterdeck and forecastle for 'Impregnable' (1810), a 90-gun Second Rate, three-decker building at Chatham. The plan includes pencil outlines for some of the deck planking. Signed by
15 May 1798
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'Impregnable' (1810). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck plan for 'Impregnable' (1810), a 90-gun Second Rate three-decker, building at Chatham Dockyard. Signed by John Henslow [Surveyor of the Navy, 1784-1806] and William Rule [S
15 May 1798
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'Hibernia' (1804). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile, as lengthened, for 'Hibernia' (1804), a 110-gun, First Rate, three-decker, building at Plymouth Dockyard. A copy of this plan with the lengthened deck plans was sent to
15 June 1798
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'Hibernia' (1804). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck with alterations for lengthening 'Hibernia' (1804), a 110-gun, First Rate, three-decker. The plan has been altered by having an additional piece of paper inserted to take into
Probably: 15 June 1798
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'Hibernia' (1804). Scale: 1:48. Plans showing the orlop deck with alterations for lengthening 'Hibernia' (1804), a 110-gun, First Rate, three-decker. The plan has been altered by having an additional piece of paper inserted to take int
Probably: 15 June 1798
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Jamaica (1798) [ex French, Percante (1795)]. Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, longitudinal half breadth for Jamaica (1798) [ex Percante (1795)], a captured French Sixth Rate, as taken off pr
15 December 1799
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Jamaica (1798) [ex French, Percante (1795)]. Scale 1:48. Plan showing upper deck with super imposed fore castle deck and the lower deck plan with after platform for Jamaica (1798) [ex French, Percante (1795)], as captured French Sixth Rate as taken off pr
15 December 1799
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Blenheim (1761). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the outboard profile of 'Blenheim' (1761), a 90-gun Second Rate, three-decker, illustrating her as cut down (razeed) to a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker at Chatham Dockyard. This was approved by Admiralty
15 January 1801
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'Magnificent' (1806); 'Valiant' (1807); 'Elizabeth' (1807); 'Cumberland' (1807); 'Venerable' (1808). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for building 'Magnificent' (1806), 'Valiant
15 September 1805
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'Defence' (1815); 'Benbow' (1813). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Defence' (1815), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker. Note that the plan is titled with her original n
15 April 1809
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Defence (1815). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the framing profile (disposition) for 'Defence' (1815), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as ordered to be built at Chatahm Dockyard. Note that the plan is under her original build name of 'Marathon&
15 April 1809
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Cambridge (1815). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with 'pink' stern board outline, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for Cambridge (1815), an 80-gun Third Rate, two-decker. Signed by William Rule [Surveyor of the Navy, 1793-181
15 August 1810
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Investigator (1811). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board detail, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for building the Investigator (1811) as a 6-gun Survey Vessel. Signed Henry Peake [Surveyor of the Navy,
15 October 1810
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Fowey / Towey (1814), Mersey (1814), Conway (1814), Eden (1814), Tyne (1814), Tanmar (1814), Tees (1817), Menai (1814), Wye (1814), Dee (1814). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines and longitudinal half breadth proposed and approved, for Fo
15 January 1813
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Fowey / Towey (1814). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the framing profile (disposition) for Fowey / Towey (1814), a 26/28-gun Sloop building at Buchlers Hard by Mr Balthazar Adams. Signed William Rule, Henry Peake (Surveyors of the Navy)
15 March 1813
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Fury (1814). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the middle part of a section at the after side of the after bomb bed of the Fury (1814), a bomb vessel building at Rochester by Mrs Mary Ross. The plan includes a note that the beams and diagonal shores were to be
15 October 1813
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Fury (1814). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the part section through the after side of the fore bomb-bed for Fury (1814), a bomb vessel building at Rochester by Mrs Mary Ross. The plan illustrates the bolts and chocks used to hold the beams and diagonal shor
15 October 1813
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Weymouth (1804). No Scale (probably 1:96). Plan showing incomplete inboard profile, the spar deck, upper deck, and lower deck of Weymouth (1804), a purchased East Indiaman as fitted for a Storeship in December 1813. Signed by Edward Sison, [Master Shi
15 January 1814
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'Talavera' (1818). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines (with alterations), and longitudinal half-breadth for building the 'Talavera' (1818), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker at Woolwich Dockyard. Note that the plan r
15 March 1814
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Modeste (captured 1814). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plans, stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Modeste (captured 1814), a captured French 40-gun Fifth Rate Frigate, as taken off at Portsmouth Do
15 June 1815
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Formidable (1825); Ganges (1821). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing part sections at Stations 28 and X illustrating how the timbers were to be joined for Formidable (1825), and with alterations dated 1818 for Ganges (1821), both 84-gun Second Rate, two-deckers. T
15 September 1815
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'Justitia' (1807). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing an incomplete profile illustrating the manner of fitting trusses in the gunports and hold of 'Justitia' (1807), a captured Danish Third Rate, in preperation for an experiment to illustrate S
15 February 1817
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Shamrock (circa 1816). Scale: 1:48. Plans showing the body plan with half stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Shamrock (circa 1816), a 74ft 12-gun Revenue Brig stationed on the coast of I
15 October 1817
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Shamrock (circa 1816). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck and lower deck with hold for Shamrock (circa 1816), a 74ft 12-gun Revenue Brig stationed on the coast of Ireland. Signed by Edward Churchill [Master Shipwright, Plymouth Dockyard, 1815-1929]
15 October 1817
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32ft Boat (no date). Scale: 1:24. A plan showing the body plan, section, inboard profile, longitudinal half-breadth, and half deck plan for a two-masted, thirty-two foot boat designed by Lieutenant Molyneux Shuldham (seniority: 15 April 1799). The plan i
15 April 1818
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63ft Sailing Mooring Lighter (no date). Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for a sixty-three foot single-masted sailing mooring lighter that was not built. S
15 February 1819
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'Royal Adelaide' (1828). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing a half stern profile, stern quarter profile, and stern quarter plan, illustrating the framing of the circular stern, for Royal Adelaide (1828), a 100/110-gun, First Rate, three-decker. Note th
15 October 1819
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'Vigilant' (1821). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile, upper deck, and lower deck with fore and aft platforms for 'Vigilant' (1821), a 6/10-gun Cutter, as fitted at Deptford Dockyard in April 1822.
15 May 1822
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Spartan (1841), Creole (1845), Amethyst (1844), Niobe (1849). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile plan for Spartan (1841), Creole (1845), Amethyst (1844), Niobe (1849), all 28-gun Sixth Rate ships. Spartan (1841) was later deleted, once built as
15th Decembere 1838
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Method of fitting guns to the launch of Phaeton (1848). No scale. Plan showing a part elevation and plan for the bow and stern of the launch for Phaeton (1848), a 50-gun, Fourth Rate Frigate, illustrating the fitting of guns to fire over the bow and ster
15 August 1851
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Arrow (1823). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck, and lower deck with platforms for Arrow (1823), a 10-gun ketch-rigged Cutter. Plan drawn prior to being taken to pieces in 1852.
Dated: 15 December 1851
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Mersey (1858); Orlando (1858). Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the midship section illustrating the way the beams are attached to the sides, and a midship elevation illustrating the frames and diagonal supports for Mersey (1858) and Orlando (1858), both 40-gun
15 July 1856
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Dreadnought (1875). Scale 1:48. A sheer drawing of the body plan, waterlines, half-breadths, as redesigned in conformity with arrangements approved 11 Sept 1872, for the turret battleship HMS Fury (renamed Dreadnought, 1875) while under construction. Con
15 January 1873
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30 ft Pinnace. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing a sail elevation with some inboard detail for a 12 oared, 30 ft Pinnace, with a De Horsey Rig. Included is a plan of the mast step and thwart. Signed E. C. Warren [Chief Constructor, Chatham Dockyard], and H. S.
Dated: 15 October 1884
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32 ft Pinnace. Scale: 1:24. Plan showing the sail elevation with some inboard detail for a 14 oared, 32 ft Pinnace woth a De Horsey Rig. Signed E. C. Warren [Chief Constructor, Chatham Dockyard], and H. S. Ley [Staff Captain, Chatham Dockyard].
Dated: 15 October 1884
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27ft Whaler (1904). Scale: 1:16. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for a 27ft Whaler. Signed by Edwin Beaton [Chief Constructor, Sheerness Dockyard, (lent) 1903, (permenant), 1904-1913]
15 August 1904
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. body
15 Feb 1910
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HMS Aark Royal (1937). Scale 1:96. A plan showing the aft sections of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (1937).
15 August 1939
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HMS Ark Royal (1937). Scale 1:96. A plan showing the flight and upper gallery decks of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (1937).
15 August 1939
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HMS Ark Royal (1937). Scale 1:96. A plan showing the forward sections of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (1939).
15 August 1939
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HMS Ark Royal (1937). Scale 1:96. A plan showing the inboard profile of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (1937).
August 1939
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HMS Ark Royal (1937). Scale 1:96. A plan showing the island superstructure of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (1937).
15 August 1939
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HMS Ark Royal (1937). Scale 1:96. A plan showing the lower gallery and upper hangar decks of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (1937).
15 August 1939
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HMS Ark Royal (1937). Scale 1:96. A plan showing the lower hangar and upper decks of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (1937).
15 August 1939
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HMS Ark Royal (1937). Scale 1:96. A plan showing the main and lower decks of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (1937).
15 August 1939
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HMS Ark Royal (1937). Scale 1:96. A plan showing the platform decks and hold of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (1937).
15 August 1939
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Sturdy (1943); Stygian (1943). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the port inboard profile from the starboard side, a plan of the bridge, the superstructure plan, a plan at the greatest breadth, a plan of the flat at frames 98-107, a plan below the main flats at
6 January 1945
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Sturdy (1943); Stygian (1943). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the starboard inboard profile from the port side as fitted for the S class submarines Sturdy (1943) and Stygian (1943). The plan also includes alterations in red ink for Stygian.
6 January 1945
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. Forecastle deck plan
15 Feb 1955
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. Inboard profile plan
15 Feb 1955
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. Upper deck plan
15 Feb 1955
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