Transit (1809)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board outline, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Transit (1809), an 11-gun four-masted Advice Boat designed by Captain Richard Hall Gower, as fitted after she was shortened by 18ft at Deptford Dockyard in 1809.

Signed by Robert John Nelson [Master Shipwright, Deptford Dockyard, 1806-1813], and initialled by William Rule [Surveyor of the Navy, 1793-1813].

NMM, Progress Book, volume 7, folio 791 states that the 'Transit' arrived in Deptford Dockyard on 11 March 1809, docked on 3 May 1809, and sailed on 20 July 1809 having been fitted. It also records a second visit to Deptford Dockyard between November 1809 and February 1810 when 'sundry alterations' were made to the vessel.

Object Details

ID: ZAZ6162
Collection: Ship Plans
Type: Technical drawing
Display location: Not on display
Vessels: Transit 1809
Date made: 1809; 28 March 1810
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 364 mm x 1039 mm
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