Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the bow, head, headrails, trail-board and figurehead for Albion (1861), a 91-gun Second Rate, screw two-decker. This ship was converted from a 90-gun sailing ship.

The three-quarter length figurehead of Britannia, the personification of Britain (or Albion), shows her in a scale chainmail shirt with a lion head on the right upper arm. She is wearing a pleated skirt that curves around the scroll decoration at the top of the blank trail-board. Britannia is wearing a plumed ancient Greek helmet. This is a simialr figurehead to Saint George (1859). This figurehead survives at Hull Maritime Museum.


Signed by James P. Peake [Master Shipwright, Devonport Dockyard, 1859-]. The plan includes an Admiralty Letter Book number S5952.