Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the head, headrails, trail-board and figurehead for Plymouth (1796), a 64ft 6-gun, cutter-rigged, Dockyard yacht (royal yacht).

The colour-washed full-length figurehead, according to a contemporary letter in the National Archives, represents the goddess Ceres in a flowing dress and billowing cloak standing on the knee of the ship’s head. She is holding a cornucopia in her right arm with a stem of corn in her outstretched left hand [see TNA, ADM106/1935]. The trail-board shows a barrel as the central motif and behind it, laid out in the fashion of victory flags and weapons, are sheaths of corn, a scythe, pitchfork, sickle, rake and vines.

Pencil sketches to the left of the figurehead include the outline of another figure as a three-quarter length bust (upside down) with an unidentified creature below the scroll, surrounded by a scroll of foliage. Other pencil sketches depict the head of a spear and a few indistinguishable drawings.