Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for Cormorant (captured 1796), a captured French Corvette, as taken off prior to being fitted as a 20 gun Sixth Rate Corvette. The plan has the ship under her original French name of Etna, which was changed on 27 December 1796.
The plan also indicates the centre lines for masts of the captured Bonne Citoyenne (1796), fitted as a 20 gun Ship Sloop (later a Sixth Rate Corvette).
Signed by Edward Tippet [Master Shipwright, Portsmouth Dockyard, 1793-1799].
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