Scale: 1:24. A contemporary full hull model of a gunboat (circa 1808), built in bread and butter construction. Model is decked and fully equipped, including a bilge pump, a mast tabernacle and crutch for lowering the sailing rig, and side benches. This model has been positively identified from a contemporary plan of the vessel titled 'Commissioner Hamilton’s Gunboat', which was designed and built by Wade and Glenfield in 1808. Measuring 54 feet in length by 15 feet in the beam, it had an approximate tonnage of 50 burden.

This vessel is one of the many types of pulling and sailing gunboats designed during the Napoleonic war period, with five built to this plan alone. The model shows the 24-pounder gun forward with a carriage working on a fore and aft slide, whilst the carronade in the stern is fitted with a special circular slide for all-round firing.