L class destroyers

Scale 1:96. Plan shows the profile, superstructure, forecastle, upper, lower and hold decks, as designed, for the L-class destroyers. The drawing also shows the vessel with a modified arrangement of 4 inch mountings. The drawing bears the signature of Sir Stanley Vernon Goodall [Director of Naval Construction 1936-1944]. This plan relates to the vessels Lance (1940), Larne (1940), Lively (1941) and Legion (1939). Larne would be renamed Gurkha in 1940.

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ID:	NPC8745
Type:	Technical drawing
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	HM Admiralty; Director of Naval Construction Goodall, Stanley Vernon
Vessels:	Lance (1940); Lively (1940) Legion (1939) Gurkha (1940)
Date made:	March 1939
People:	Goodall, Stanley Vernon
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 755 mm x 2740 mm
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L class destroyers

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