Hand-coloured. This keyed plan shows the fleet assembled at Spithead between May and August 1791 during the crisis known as the Russian Armament.

Its intended mission was to sail to the Baltic to support the Prussians against the expansionist policy of Catherine the Great of Russia under the Triple Alliance of 1788, signed by Britain, Prussia and the Dutch. It was announced early in July that George III would be coming to review the fleet informally on the 22nd, unless it sailed earlier, but he does not appear to have done so as the political situation rapidly changed and British policy was successfully faced down by the Russians. On 26 July the government decided not to intervene and the Triple Alliance consequently collapsed, to Prussian displeasure and - in direct threat terms - largely at the expense of the Ottoman Empire.

A number of plans like this were published as visitor guides to the disposition of the fleet while it lay in Spithead. The British Museum has a pocket-sized one dated as late as14 August 1791, by which time it was beginning to disperse to other stations. This undated one, with PAG7156 and PAG8915 as other slightly variant copies, are the only ones identifying their source as a local printer, Stead of Gosport: PAF4673 is another one, also priced at sixpence, by an unidentified printer. Robert Dodd's painting of ' 'Victory' sailing from Spithead' (BHC3694) also records the same fleet concentration.