Scale 1:48. Plan showing the lower deck Surprize (1774), a 28-gun, Sixth Rate Frigate, as built and fitted at Woolwich Dockyard.
Signed Nicholas Phillips (Master Shipwright)

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