Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the head with trail-board and figurehead, half-stern board, and starboard quarter for Flying Fish (1855), a 5-gun despatch vessel, re-classed as a First Class Gunvessel. The lower illustrations are the head with trail-board and figurehead, half-stern board, and starboard quarter for Alert (1856), a 17-gun screw sloop.

The figurehead for HMS Flying Fish is a three-quarter length bust of a female looking forward. She is wearing a dress with pleated skirts. The trail-board has an illustration of a flying fish at the top, just below the scroll carving.

The figurehead for HMS Alert is a three-quarter length bust of a female facing forward. She is wearing a close-fitting dress with pleated skirts and a flowing cloak down her back to the scrollwork.

The sternboards and quarter galleries for both ships are blank of any detail. Both designs have the measurements for the different areas of the head to help with the proposed figurehead.

The plan includes an Admiralty Letter Book number S3580 – 55 / 4163.

DIC0114 and DIC0116 are part of the same original plan, having been cut into sections sometime in the past.