Scale: 1:60. A contemporary full hull model of a 60-gun, two-decker ship of the line (circa 1745), built in the Georgian style. The model is decked, equipped and rigged. From the scale of the model, the vessel measured 153 feet along the gun deck by 42 feet in the beam and displaced approximately 1200 tons burden. It was armed with twenty-four 24-pounders on the gun deck, twenty-six 12-pounders on the upper deck, eight 6-pounders on the quarterdeck and two 6-pounders on the forecastle.

This model was re-rigged in the Museum in 1938 and is of the highest quality. It is one of only a few where the maker, John Hancock of Deptford dockyard, is known. The model does not appear to represent a particular vessel but it does illustrate one of the many attempts by the Royal Navy to find the optimum size ship for the line in battle. Such a vessel needed to be large enough to carry a heavy armament, but not so big that the ship’s manoeuvrability in the line was overly impaired.

Some features of the model such as the position of the chainwales above the upper deck ports and the presence of side-gangways in the waist suggest a date later than 1745; on the other hand the fact that the lower wales are left ‘open’ would normally suggest a date at least 15 years earlier. Mr E. W. James, a descendent of the maker, presented the model, which was previously in the Royal Naval Museum, to Greenwich Hospital in 1895.