The ‘Yarmouth’, viewed from the starboard quarter with twelve guns on the gun deck, ten on the upper deck and four on the quarterdeck. The three ports in the waist have square decoration and the four small ones on the quarterdeck are wreathed. There is a latrine in the main chains.

This is probably one of the 54-gun fourth-rates – ‘Happy Return’, ‘Leopard’, ‘Newcastle’ and ‘Yarmouth’ - built during the Commonwealth, which lasted without rebuilding until the van de Veldes came to England. In 1677 they were armed with twenty-four guns of the gun deck, twenty-two on the upper deck and eight on the quarter deck. PAG6235 shows this is not the ‘Newcastle’. There are only drawings of the ‘Happy Return’ as rebuilt and drawings of the other two are not known. Robinson, however, notes that the ‘Leopard’ was built in 1659 and, on the basis of the small round quarter-deck ports, tentatively suggests this is the ‘Yarmouth’. He presumes this was without being rebuilt, though the ship clearly had her Commonwealth stern decoration replaced with the royal arms, as shown.

It is a detailed and accurate unsigned drawing of the ship except that (to show the ports) she is made too long for the amount of stern showing. It is well worked up with wash and probably based on an offset by the Elder, but the delicacy of the wash on the stern and quarter-gallery are the Younger’s manner.