Scale: 1:48. A contemporary full hull model of the 'Tartarus' (1834), a first-class steam gunboat, built in ‘bread and butter’ construction. Model is decked and equipped with a single wheel, deck skylights and gratings, and two stump masts with a bowsprit. Built at the Royal Navy Dockyard, Pembroke, in 1834, it was one of the earliest steamships to be designed by Sir William Symonds, Chief Surveyor of the Navy. Measuring 145 feet along the gun deck by 28 feet in the beam, it had a tonnage of 523 burden. It was armed with two nine-pounder guns and was fitted with direct-cting steam engines driving two paddles. The `Tartarus’ never really saw any action and between 1840-50 was employed on surveying duties around the UK and Mediterranean before being broken up at Malta in 1860.