Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Medway (1755) and York (1753), both 60-gun Fourth Rate, two-deckers building at Deptford and Plymouth respectively. The Surveyor (Sir Joseph Allin) proposed to lower the main and fore channels eight inches in July 1754 for the Medway, and a copy was sent to Thomas Slade, Master Shipwright at Deptford.
MEDWAY 1755
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circa April 1751
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