File:Melpomene (captured 1794) RMG J3894.jpg
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| Description |
English: Melpomene (captured 1794) Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board decoration and name in a cartouche on the counter, the sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Melpomene (captured 1794), a captured French Frigate, as taken off at Chatham Dockyard having been fitted as a 38-gun Fifth Rate Frigate. Note that the plan shows her with a fairly typical French layout of wheel abaft the mizzen and a single set of anchor bitts on the upper deck. |
| Date | circa August 1795 |
| Dimensions | Sheet: 509 mm x 1428 mm |
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/81802 |
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| Identifier | Admiralty Curator Number: 1649 id number: ZAZ2011 |
| Collection | Ship Plans |
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| current | 18:15, 18 October 2017 | 1,280 × 456 (120 KB) | Fæ | Royal Museums Greenwich Ship Plans (1795), http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/81802 #6597 |