Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with sternboard decoration, sheer lines,with figurehead, and longitudinal half breadth as proposed and approved for Surprize (1774), a 28-gun, Sixth Rate Frigate, as built and fitted at Woolwich Dockyard. Proposed to be launched on 13th April 1774.
Signed Nicholas Phillips (Master Shipwright). Annotation on reverse: "Recieved the 12th April 1774, Surprize, with the Plans as Built."


NMM, Progress Book, volume 5, folio 305, states that 'Surprize' was begun at Woolwich Dockyard on 5 September 1771 and launched on 13 April 1774. She was docked between 2 and 16 February 1775, and sailed fitted for sea on 15 April 1775. The Progress Book records that she was built of 'foreign oak'. Surprize then arrived in Plymouth dockyard on 19 December 1775 and was docked on 9 January 1776. She was undocked on the same day and sailed on 3 February 1776 having been refitted