A British Sixth Rate, 1684

Object summary

Title: A British Sixth Rate, 1684
Object ID: CC-F-0028
Date made: 1802
Place made: United Kingdom, Greater London, London
Draftsman: Charnock, John
Engraver: Greig
Publisher: Sewell, John
Object type: Engraving
Major collection: Nautical
Named collection: Arthur H. Clark Collection
On view: No

Description

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.