Scale: 1:48. A contemporary full hull model of the 'Royal Oak' (1741), a 70-gun two-decker ship of the line, built plank on frame in the Navy Board style. The model is partially decked, equipped, rigged and mounted on its original baseboard. The model has been identified as being the 'rebuilt’ 'Royal Oak’ of 1741, and the dimensions agree closely to the original plans held in the NMM collection. It had a gun deck length of 151 feet by 43 feet in the beam and a tonnage of 1224 burden.

Internal examination has also revealed that some structural alterations have been made to the model with the moving and filling of gunports in the stern, as well as changes to the stern layout. The name on the stern was probably added later as this practice was not introduced until the 1770’s. The rigging, which is largely contemporary, has had minor repairs carried out as well as some general restoration of the hull, which was undertaken by Jim Lees in the NMM workshop 1974-75.

The 'Royal Oak’ had an active career with the fleet in the Mediterranean and was present at the blockade of Toulon in 1744, before it was finally ordered to be broken up in 1763.