Scale: 1:200. The model was made from drawings supplied by the shipbuilders, Swan Hunter, and naval architect, John de Caux, and supplemented by detailed photographs of the ship taken by the NMM on 27 October 1980. The model’s high attention to detail enabled it to be used in the Ministry of Defence’s inquiry into the loss of 'Atlantic Causeway’s’ sister ship, ‘Atlantic Conveyor’, in the Falklands Conflict in 1982.

The 'Atlantic Causeway' (1969) was one of six sister ships built in the late 1960s for the Atlantic Container Lines (ACL) consortium, made up of Britain’s Cunard Line together with Swedish, Dutch and French partners.

These 15,000-ton ships were powered by four steam turbines. They were at the time the most up-to-date, dual purpose roll-on/roll-off container ships, capable of carrying 720 20-foot containers, some of which were refrigerated. As roll-on/roll-off ships with room for 950 cars on four special car decks, these vessels were able to achieve faster, more efficient, turnaround times than conventional ships.

‘Causeway’s’ sister, ‘Atlantic Conveyor’, carrying Chinook and Wessex 5 helicopters, and Harrier jump jets, was hit by an Argentinean Exocet missile and sank with the loss of 12 men and six aircraft during the Falklands Conflict.