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Diligence (1756)
Scale: 1:96. A plan showing the quarterdeck, forecastle, upper deck, and fore & aft platforms for Diligence (1756), a 10-gun two-masted sloop, as taken off at Sheerness Dockyard where the ship was refitted as a receiving ship, but re-registered in August 1779 as a fireship and renamed Comet, and then fitted as a fireship between September and November 1779.
Signed by John Jenner [Master Shipwright, Sheerness Dockyard, March 1779-April 1779].
Signed by John Jenner [Master Shipwright, Sheerness Dockyard, March 1779-April 1779].
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Object details
| ID: | ZAZ5014 |
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| Collection: | Ship Plans |
| Type: | Technical drawing |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Vessels: | Diligence (1756) |
| Date made: | Circa June 1778 |
| Credit: | © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Sheet: 248 mm x 377 mm |