Scale 1:54. A contemporary full hull model of a 90 to 94-gun three-decker (circa 1670), built partially plank on frame in the Navy Board style. It is rather unusual in that very little of the hull is planked, the deck beams are left unplanked and the stern and quarter galleries are in frame only. The bulwark screens, above the upper wales, have been decorated and are complete with wreathed gunports. At this rather unusual scale, it represents a ship measuring 163 feet along the gun deck by 44 feet in the beam and an approximate tonnage of 1230 burden.

Although probably a design for a three-decker of 1670, the model agrees in many respects with a ship whose plans appear in Sir Anthony Deane’s ‘Doctrine of Naval Architecture’ of 1670. The very unusual feature of the three lower wales instead of the normal two appears in Deane’s drawing. His first three-decker was the Royal James of 1671, although this model probably represents a slightly smaller ship and it has been associated with the St Andrew of 1670.