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Description: | A Duplicate of the above Drawing was sent to Commissioner Grey Portsm'th 25th May 1814 to be forwarded to Bombay in the Hon'ble Company's extra Ship Tigris under the charge of Josh Seaton Esq. passenger, for the Wellesley [deleted in pencil] and Melville 74 Guns.
A copy of this Draught was sent to Woolwich Yard 18th Sept'r 1810 for building the Black Prince, 74 Guns. N.B. The above draught was recall'd and sent to Commissioner Grey at Portsmouth 20 Oct'r 1812, to be forwarded to Bombay in the Java Frigate for building a 74 Gunship to be named Wellesley [deleted and 'Melville' inserted in pencil]. [in red ink] The Java having been sunk in an Action with an American Ship of Superior force, another Copy of this Draught with Frame & Stern was prepared & sent to Portsmouth 26th March 1813, to be forwarded in His Majesty's Ship Stirling Castle of 74 Guns.
Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Black Prince' (1816), 'Melville' (1817), 'Hawke' (1820) and 'Wellesley' (1815), all 74-gun Third Rate, two-deckers, based on the design of the captured Danish 74-gun 'Christian VII'. Note that the 'Wellesley' was originally of this design, but was changed to follow the lines of the 'Cornwallis' (1813) of the Armada/Conquestadore/Vengeur class.
Signed by William Rule [Surveyor of the Navy, 1793-1813] and Henry Peake [Surveyor of the Navy, 1806-1822].
Traditional repair.
caption: 'Black Prince' (1816); 'Melville' (1817); 'Hawke' (1820); 'Wellesley' (1815) | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Christian VII (captured 1807) Henry William Wellesley (1815) Peake Black Prince (1816) lines (ship plans) Rule Hawke (1820) Melville (1817) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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