Grampus (1746)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile (to waterline), half-breadth of the upper deck, lower deck, and full orlop deck with fore & aft platforms for Grampus (1746), a 14-gun three-masted Ship Sloop, as coverted to an 8-gun Fireship.

NMM, Progress Book, volume 2, folio 502, states that 'Grampus' was "paid off as a Sloop and order'd to be converted to a Fireship by Admiralty Order the 6th Jan'y 1762." She arrived at Sheerness Dockyard on 27 November 1761, and was docked on 16 January 1762. Grampus was undocked on 30 March 1762 having been fitted as a Fireship.

Object Details

ID: ZAZ5578
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Grampus (1746)
Date made: March-April 1762
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 481 mm x 686 mm
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