Alexander (1778)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Alexander (1778), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as built at Deptford Dockyard. The Navy Office subsequently ordered on 30 June 1779 another ship to be built to this design, which was to be paid for by the Honourable East India Company. However, this ship is not recorded in the sources. [Rif Winfield contacted, 15/10/2010, JM]

Signed by John Williams [Surveyor of the Navy, 1765-1784].

Object Details

ID: ZAZ1948
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Alexander (1778)
Date made: Circa October-December 1778; 1779
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: 630 mm x 1620 mm
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