Scale: 1:48. A plan showing the bow, head, head-rails, trail-board and figurehead for Aboukir (1848), a 90-gun Second Rate, two-decker building at Plymouth Dockyard.

The figurehead is a half-bust of Rear-Admiral Lord Nelson looking forward. He is wearing a naval uniform with wide unbuttoned coat lapels, a high collar with black necktie (stock) and epaulettes. He has the sash from the Order of the Bath across his chest. Nelson’s hair is loose at the front but drawn back into a traditional sailors queue. Below the trail-board lower cheek scroll are a sword, ensign, spear and cannon. These were not approved. However, a pencil sketch at the bottom right suggests that the cloak above the scroll was to be extended around it part of the way, but still leaving the trail-board blank.

While the plan is unsigned it includes an Admiralty Letter Book number S1417.

Correspondence indicates that this plan was submitted by Edward Hellyer and approved, but Frederick Dickerson appealed the decision, having submitted a bust of a pharaoh. He was allowed to carve the figurehead. This design looks very similar to the Dickerson submission for the replacement figurehead on HMS Nile (1839) after the ship’s conversion to steam in 1851 – See DIC0109.