A large three-quarter length polychrome figurehead referred to as Duchess of Sutherland believed to be from a wooden barque built in 1851 or a paddle steamer built in 1869.

The figurehead appears to have been named ‘Duchess of Sunderland’ by Sydney Cumbers, who believed it came from a 380-ton wood barque built in 1851 for Thomas Young by James Laing and Sons of Sunderland. The figurehead is clothed in a generic ‘classical’ style. Her green dress has the detail picked out in cream and the trim is also cream. She is wearing a cream and gold trimmed veil attached to the head with a gold tiara. The Duchess's brown hair is tied back except for two tresses worn down each side of her neck. Her right hand is held across her chest where she is holding a red apple(?) and black grapes. She has brown eyes with blue eye-shadow.

She may represent Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, beauty and pleasure, who also had a close association with the sea. However, what is certain is that the figurehead does not depict Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, the Duchess of Sutherland (1806–68).