A print of the ship plan of a British second rate ship of the line in 1665 published in volume 2, page 484 of 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 stern, projection of the hull, and horizontal lines. In the drawing of the sheer draft, the ship is rendered naturalistically and carefully shaded until the waterline; the structure below is rendered in simple, measured lines. The stern, also, is elaborately rendered, but the projection is depicted in single lines. A grid depicts the scale in feet.
Inscription on top: "NB This Ship having undergone a Thorough Repair soon after the Revolution the Cypher WR was introduced on the Quarter in Compliment to the Reigning Monarch."
