Scale: 1:96. A full hull model of the oil tanker 'Horama' (1967), fully decked, equipped, and rigged and has been mounted in a later waterline baseboard and display case. The wooden hull is constructed in ‘bread and butter fashion’ and sheathed with a resin and glass re-enforced plastic high-gloss finish, and the name ‘Horama’ is inscribed on the port and starboard bows, with ‘Horama London’ on the stern.

This model was placed in a scenic sea for the exhibition ‘Pirates, Fact and Fiction’ in 1992. The imaginary scene depicts the ‘Horama’ being boarded by modern-day pirates in the waters off South-East Asia, with the raiding vessel looking like a minnow alongside the mammoth tanker’s port quarter. Some of the pirates can be seen scaling a rope while others are on one of the upperdeck walkways.

Built by Verolme Shipyard, Heusden, Netherlands, for the Moller Line, it measures 574 feet in length by 74 feet in the beam and has tonnage of 23170 gross. The ‘Horama’ was designed to carry bitumen only and as such it was vital that it was not contaminated by water. It is carried in ten centre tanks and when on a ballast voyage, the saltwater ballast is carried in wing tanks. It was engaged on voyages from Trinidad to the east coast of North America as well as from Curacao to West Africa. The vessel has a bulbous bow, square stern, superstructure and funnel typical of those adopted by many vessels during the late 1960’s.