Hawk (1793)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the port (larboard) and starboard framing profiles (dispositions) for Hawk (1793), a 16-gun ship sloop with a quarterdeck and forecastle. The plan illustrates the different wood experiments and which frames were rotten. This was drawn as the ship was being taken apart for possible repair but ultimately for breaking up and disposal.

The colours include: shaded blue and timber marked with a circle were stripped standing (i.e. before felling) for an experiment; shaded yellow and timber marked with a square were grown in the same soil but felled in the usual way; shaded red and timber marked with triangles were taken 'promiscuously' (i.e. at random) from the yard; short timbers over the ports not shaded were of fir and were sound. Those marked 'R' were rotten timbers.

Signed by Henry Peake [Master Shipwright, Deptford Dockyard, 1803-1806].

NMM, Progress Book, volume 5, folio 449, states that 'Hawke' arrived at Deptford Dockyard on 6 August 1802, was docked 24 March 1803 and had the copper sheathing removed. She was taken to pieces in May 1803.

Object Details

ID: ZAZ4730
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Hawk (1793)
Date made: 1803; 3 May 1803
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 437 mm x 738 mm
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