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Description: | Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and long longitudinal half-breadth for Viper (captured 1794), a captured French brig sloop, as taken off at Portsmouth prior to conversion to an 18-gun brig sloop.
Signed by Edward Tippet [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard, 1793-1799].
Attached to the plan is a table of the mast and yard dimensions dated 3 April 1794. A false keel was added in 1796 to improve her weatherly handling and when in stays at the request of Captain May.
caption: VIPERE FL.1794 [FRENCH] | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | profiles (ship plans) lines (ship plans) Viper (captured 1794) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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