The National Maritime Museum has recently published on Collections Online a selection of ship plans from The Admiralty collection of sailing warships, commonly known as the Sailing Navy Collection.

The plans range in date from 1700 to 1850 allowing visitors to visualise the leaps that were made in ship design during this period and show how as political situations changed (such as the War of American Independence and the Napoleonic War) so did the Navy's needs.

The collection also holds plans for ships that were never built as well as experimental vessel that varied in their success.

I hope that you enjoy viewing the plans.