Description: | A Copy of this Draught was given to Mr Barnard 15th April 1777 for Building a 64 Gunship at Harwich called Inflexible/ Another to Messrs Adams, Barnard & Co in the River Thames March 1778, Africa/ Another to Mr Batson at Limehouse 30th Novr 1778, Dictator/ Another to Messrs Randall & Co 2d March 1779, Sceptre.
Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for Inflexible (1780), and later for Africa (1781), Dictator (1783), and Sceptre (1781), all 64-gun Third Rate, two-deckers. The design was similar to the 74-gun Albion (1763).
Signed by John Williams [Surveyor of the Navy, 1765-1784]
caption: INFLEXIBLE 1780 |