Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, stern board outline, inboard profile with figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth with lower deck details, for Superb (captured 1710), a captured French Fourth Rate. The plan may be Superb after her 'Great Repair' between 1720 and 1722, as a 56-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker.
NMM, Progress Book, volume 1, folio 245, states that 'Superb' arrived at Plymouth Dockyard on 13 November 1713 and docked on 8 December 1713. She was undocked on 9 December 1713. 'Superb' was docked again on 7 January 1714 and undocked on 3 February 1714. She later arrived at Woolwich Dockyard on 24 February 1720 and was docked on 27 April 1720. 'Superb' was undocked on 10 November 1721 and sailed on 10 March 1722 having undergone a Great Repair.
SUPERB 1710
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circa 1722
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