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Description: | Navy Office 10th July 1780. A Drought proposed for building a ship to carry 74 Guns by Messrs Perry & Hankey, agreeable to an order from the Right Hon'ble the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty of the 4th Inst't and also another to carry 74 Guns, by Messrs Randall, Gray & Brent. [for Powerful and Defiance].
Navy Office 12th July 1779. A Draught for building for His Majesty, a Ship to carry 74 Guns, agreeable to a Resolution of the General Court of the United Company of Merchants Trading to the East Indies, dated 30 June 1779. [for Bombay Castle]
Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with sternboard decoration and name on the counter, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Berwick (1775), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as built at Portsmouth Dockyard. The plan was later approved for Bombay Castle (1782), Powerful (1783), and Defiance (1783) of the same class.
Signed by John Williams [Surveyor of the Navy, 1765-1784], and Edward Hunt [1778-1784].
Traditional repair.
caption: Berwick (1775); Bombay Castle (1782); Powerful (1783); Defiance (1783) | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Defiance (1783) profiles (ship plans) Williams Hunt Bombay Castle (1782) Berwick (1775) lines (ship plans) Powerful (1783) John Edward | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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