Scale: 1:60. A contemporary full hull model of the 'Hyacinth' (1829), a ship rigged sloop 18-gun sixth-rate, built plank on frame and sailor made. Model is decked, equipped and rigged with three masts and flying a white ensign from the peak of the gaff.

Launched at Plymouth in 1829, the `Hyacinth’ measured 109 feet along the gun deck by 30 feet in the beam, and it had a tonnage of 435 burden. It was flush-decked with a small forecastle and quarterdeck, and was armed with sixteen 32-pounder carronades and two 6-pounder guns. During its 42-year career, it was stationed in the West and East Indies from 1829-41, took part in the China Wars from 1841-42, and from 1843-46 it was stationed off the west coast of Africa in the suppression of the slave trade. After being reduced to 14 guns in 1847, it later became a coal hulk at Portsmouth before being broken up in 1871.