On Her Majesty's Service HMSO Ship Plans 1759 44 GUN HMS PHOENIX for Model/Wall

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On Her Majesty's Service HMSO Ship Plans 1759 44 GUN HMS PHOENIX for Model/Wall
On Her Majesty's Service HMSO Ship Plans 1759 44 GUN HMS PHOENIX for Model/Wall
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OFFERED HERE IS THE FOLLOWING: Plans(4) ordered from the National Maritime Museum Greenwich, London and sent On Her Majesty's Service(HMSO) in 1970. Plans are of the 44 Gun Frigate "HMS Phoenix", a Fifth Rate Ship of the Royal Navy. Built by John and Robert Batson of Limehouse, she was launched in 1759 and saw service in The American War of Independance, laying off of Sandy Hook, NJ, as well as Red Hook and Gravesend Brooklyn. LOA was 140'9"; Beam 36'9.75" and Depth of Hold 15'11.5". She was a Full Rigged Ship. She carried a compliment of 280 Officers and Men and her armament included 20X18 Pounder Guns on the Lower Deck, 20X9 Pounder Guns on the Upper Deck and 4X6 Pounder Guns on the Quarter Deck. She was sunk after limping(mastless) to Cuba after a devastating hurricane in 1780.  Plans include 1) a General Profile 51"X18", 2) Profile Draught 40 3/4"X14 3/4", 3) Upper Deck 40 3/4"X14 3/4" and 4) Quarters Deck of Forecastle 36"X13 3/8".  Plans will be re-rolled and professionally mailed in a sturdy cardboard tube, and sent via Priority Mail.
I had the wonderful opportunity to attend an auction offering the lifetime collection of an engineer who spent every free hour(or so it seemed) building highly complex and extraordinariliy detailed maritime models of all shapes and sizes.  He had passed away some fifteen years prior, at the age of 88. He had a degree in civil engineering, and was a veteran of WWII.
There were people from all over the world, including owners of various tugboat companies, vying for one or several of the many treasures he had acquired or built throughout the many years of his life. I was quite ecstatic to come home with the vast collection of plans he used as a reference for his many tremendous achievements in the exclusive world of precision, large scale modeling. Most of these plans were garnered through correspondance with various countries/companies/museums including the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, the HMSO(On Her Majesty's Service), The Gore,Basildon, Essex as well as various Tugboat and Railroad Companies. Many of the plans appear unused and/or very well preseved.
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