A print of the plans of the third rate ship of the line, the 'Captain,' 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, and the projections of the afterbody 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 stern, also, is elaborately rendered. A grid depicts the scale in feet.
