Unnamed 130ft Fifth Rate (circa 1760), possibly 'Flora' (captured 1761)

Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for an unnamed 130ft French Fifth Rate, Frigate (circa 1760), as taken off prior to fitting as a British Frigate.

The 'Flora' (1761), a 32-gun Fifth Rate, ex French Frigate Vestal (1757) has similar dimensions.

The French identity comes from the shape and size of the tumblehome, the position of the wheel behind the mizzen mast, only one set of bits on the Upper Deck, and the lack of an Orlop Deck. The date is uncertain, but is likely to be sometime between 1756 and 1783, as Frigates become larger by the French Revolutionary Wars.

Object Details

ID: HIL0011
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Flora (captured 1761)
Date made: Circa 1760
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 395 x 1275 mm
Parts: Folder
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