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'Ardent' (1796) Long Caption: Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the upper deck proposed for fitting the 'Princess Royal', an East India Company ship purchased in frame at Northfleet, as a 64-gun Third Rate two decker and renamed 'Ardent' (1796). NMM, Progress Book, volume 5, folio 172, states that 'Ardent' was launched at Mr Pitcher's Yard, Northfleet, on 9 April 1796. She was fitted at Woolwich Dockyard between 26 April and 7 August 1796. Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London Object: ZAZ1269 Artist: unknown Date: circa July 1795 Medium: technical drawing Size: 422 x 1326 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.