A print of the ship designs of a fifth rate ship of the line in 1684 published in John Charnock's 'An [sic] History of Marine Architecture' (London: R. Faulder, 1800-1802), which was then considered the most authoritative book on eighteenth-century shipbuilding published in England. The plan shows the sheer draft, the section plan, the stern, projection of the afterbody, and the projection of the bow and 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, measured lines. The dark negative space of the section view makes clear the exact beam structure of the hull. The stern, also, is elaborately rendered. A grid depicts the scale in feet.
