Scale : 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Dart (1796) and Arrow (1796), both 20-28-gun Ship Sloops fitted with sliding keels. The plan shows the ship as built at Redbridge, Southampton, in 1796, and fitted at Portsmouth between October 1796 and February 1797.

Signed by Samuel Bentham [Inspector of Naval Works]. He also designed the Dart and its sister ship Arrow, launched in 1796 from the same yard.

NMM, Progress Book, volume 5, folio 656, states that 'Arrow' arrived at Portsmouth Dockyard on 28 September 1796 and was docked on 4 October. She sailed having been fitted on 25 February 1797. She was further refitted between January and April 1798.
NMM, Progress Book, volume 5, folio 656, states that 'Dart; arrived at Portsmouth Dockyard on 18 October 1796 and was docked on 20 November. She sailed having been fitted on 27 February 1797. She was further refitted at Portsmouth between June and December 1797.