A print of the ship designs of a British Sixth Rate in 1684, drafted by John Charnock. The plan shows the sheer draft, the horizontal plan, the stern, projection of the afterbody, and the projection of the forebody. In the drawing of the sheer draft, the ship is naturalistically rendered and shaded until the waterline; the structure below is rendered in simple lines. The horizontal plan is overlapped with the below waterline drawings portraying the sheer draft. The stern, also, is elaborately rendered until the beginning of the rudder structure underneath. A grid depicts the scale in feet.
This print is possibly from a volume of John Charnock's 'An History of Marine Architecture' (London: R. Faulder, 1800-1802). It was considered the most authoritative book on eighteenth-century shipbuilding published in England.
