File:'Swiftsure' (1804); 'Victorious' (1808) RMG J3263.png

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English: 'Swiftsure' (1804); 'Victorious' (1808)

Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines, and longitudinal half-breadth proposed (and approved) for 'Swiftsure' (1804) and 'Victorious' (1808), both 74-gun Third Rate, two-deckers, both to be built at Bucklers Hard by Messrs B & E Adams. The plan also shows alterations to the rudder on 'Swiftsure', while she was at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1815-6. The alterations were suggested by the ship's Captain - Captain William Henry Webly/Webley, appointed 20 September 1814 [Captain seniority: 29 April 1802].

Signed by John Henslow [Surveyor of the Navy, 1784-1806] and William Rule [Surveyor of the Navy, 1793-1813].

NMM, Progress Book, volume 6, folio 130 states that 'Swiftsure' (1804) was at Portsmouth Dockyard between 18 August 1815 and September 1816.

'Swiftsure' (1804); 'Victorious' (1808)
Date 1 September 1800
date QS:P571,+1800-09-01T00:00:00Z/11
Dimensions Sheet: 586 x 1780 mm
Notes Traditional repair.
Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/81125
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Admiralty Curator Number: 943
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