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Description: | 44 Guns Received 3rd Feb'y 1779
Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board decoration, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Charon (1778), as built at Harwich in 1778, and later used for Experiment (1784), Gladiator (1783), and Serapis (1782), all 44-gun Fifth Rate, two-deckers. Note that Charon was built with a single row of windows, unlike other ships in the class.
Signed by John Williams [Surveyor of the Navy, 176-1784] and Edward Hunt [Surveyor of the Navy, 1778-1784].
The pencil names are not relevant to this plan, and have no known provenance. JM, 3/2011
caption: CHARON 1778 | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | profiles (ship plans) Gladiator (1783) Charon (1778) Experiment (1784) lines (ship plans) Serapis (1782) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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