Beautiful Frigates (With Plans)

[Ned Loe]

Taken from this source:

 

http://www.sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?2132-Stretching-Sculpts-SGN103-1773-Amazon-12-pounder-32-s&s=f4808e20dc04947a29174d42cd13b0f9

 

As always, starting with the drawings of the parent sculpt. (In this case, specifically 1779 Cleopatra.)

 

Slade's Southampton family: Top = 1757 Southampton 32, middle = 1758 Niger 32, bottom = 1757 Venus 36

Southampton drawing at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collect...cts/82860.html when available

 

Venus drawing at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collect...cts/82414.html when available

Bately's Richmond/Thames design: (top = 1762 Boston of Richmond-cl., bottom = 1804 Thames
Richmond (Boston) plan at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collect...cts/82730.html when available
Thames drawing at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collect...cts/82774.html when available

Building from French Tygre up to a 32...
1747-capt FR privateer Tygre - no drawing found
1748 Lyme 28:

 

1756 Lowestoffe 28 (Slade; 9#) - drawing at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collect...cts/83135.html when available
1756 Coventry 28 (Slade; 9#)

 

1759 Tweed 32 (Slade; stretch and upgun) - no drawing found

capt FR Abenakise - no drawing found
1761 one-off Lowestoffe 32 (Slade) - drawing at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collect...ts/386177.html when available
1773 Mod Lowestoffe 32 (Slade) - drawing at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collect...cts/82957.html when available

Uncertain origins...
1779 Active 32 (Hunt) - plan at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collect...cts/82833.html when available
1782 Hermione 32 (Hunt) - plan is specifically 1784 Andromeda

 

1783 one-off Heroine 32 (Adams) - plans at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collect...cts/82809.html when available

1795 Maidstone 32 (Henslow)

 

 

1796 one-off Triton 32 (Gambier) - drawing at http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collect...cts/82867.html when available

 

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So, I've been comparing some stats... Hunt's 1779 Active is statistically near identical, and the only other Williams frigates I've found are the 1771 Enterprise 28's and 1778 Flora 36's. Could these three form a progressive series of growth in the same basic line? (Going by dates, doesn't look like it--the middle size came first--but maybe a possible fork both up and down?)

Top to bottom: Enterprise (sorry, this interior view is only elevation presently available), Amazon (again, Cleopatra), Flora, Hermione (again, Andromeda)