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It must be said at the outset that this plan, drawn by the Russian ruler Peter I's own hand, is so far commonly identified with the English 6th rate ship Royal Transport 1695, as a copy of a pre-existing draught. Indeed, the dimensions compared are very similar; nevertheless, upon closer examination of this plan, it also appears that the nominal dimensions of the ship on the presented plan are even more in line with the frigate Shtandart 1703, which is known to have been designed by Peter himself. Without conclusively resolving this question, it is therefore possible to assume that this plan may also have served as the basis for the construction of the Russian frigate Shtandart in 1703.
This particular design was executed according to the already well-sophisticated and quite diverse English design methods, in a variant that Peter apparently personally liked best, judging by the contents of his abundant collection of personally made and collected ship plans of this era, all made according to the current techniques in use at the time.
Ship data for comparison taken from the monograph British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603–1714 by Rif Winfield, Russian Warsips in the Age of Sail 1696–1860 by J. Tredrea and E. Sozaev and the excellent work on the reconstruction of the real size replica ship – Shtandart 28-gun frigate, 1703 by V. Krainykov and V. Martous:
Royal Transport 1695: | Shtandart 1703 (as ordered) | Frigate plan: | |
| Length on the gun deck | 90’ | 90’ | 90’ |
| Length of the keel | 75’ | – | 76’ 4” |
| Breadth | 23’ 6” | 24’ | 23’ (or 23’ 1”) (not including planking) |
| Depth | 7’ 9” | 9’ | 8’ and 9’ respectively for lower and higher (double) breadth line |
And the plan itself (Russian archives):
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