Scale: 1:32. A contemporary full hull model of a yacht (circa 1675), built in the Navy Board style. Model is decked and complete and mounted on original crutches, with a set of launching flags including a royal standard amidships. Measuring 75 feet along the upper deck and a beam of 21 feet, it has an approximate tonnage of 130 and with 10 guns ports. Yachts of this date were fitted with a single mast and cutter-rigged and the model has channnels, chainplates and deadeyes fitted for a single mast just forward of midships.


A framed paper label, which may be original, is mounted on the baseboard and identifies the model as the ‘Charles’ Royal Yacht launched at Rotherhithe in 1675, and states that it was owned by Captain Fasby, who commanded several of the royal yachts between 1666 and 1688.

Although it is of a similar build to the royal yachts of the period, it cannot be positively identified with any particular vessel. Neither the appearance nor measurements seem to fit the smaller ‘Charles’, which measured 54ft on the keel by 20 ft 6in beam.