Scale 1:44. A contemporary model of the 20-24 gun ‘Peregrine Galley’ (1700) (later ‘Carolina’). It is built plank-on-frame in the ‘Navy Board’ style. The model is decked and equipped. There is a large amount of decoration around the bulwark screens, the quarter and stern galleries, The stern is decorated with gilt carvings, and there is a lion figurehead at the bow. The aft five ports are glazed. It is mounted on a modern wooden display baseboard. At 1:48 the model would depict the vessel as having a gun deck length of 92 feet by 24 feet in the beam and an approximate tonnage of 250 burthen. However, at 1:44 scale the model represents a vessel, 84 feet 4 inches on the deck by a 22 foot beam.


The vessel was identified as the ‘Peregrine Galley’ due to three factors, the hull dimensions; the absence of channels for a mizzen mast; and the fact that the galley is unconventionally facing the magazine.

The ‘Peregrine Galley’ was designed by Admiral Sir Peregrine Osborne, Marquess of Carmarthen and later 2nd Duke of Leeds, often known by his lesser title of "Lord Danby"). The hull has a fine entry and run and had reputation as a fast sailer. officially classed as a 20-gun sixth-rate, but designed to double as a yacht-like fast transport for members of the royal family and other important dignitaries. She was used to carry the Duke of Marlborough to his continental campaigns and was the ship which brought King George I from Germany to take the British throne in 1714.

She was initially built with a light two-masted square rig, but due to the unbalance nature of this rig, she was later re-rigged as three-masted a fully-rigged ship in January 1703.

In 1716, she was refitted, renamed ‘Carolina’, and formally re-designated as a royal yacht, she was rebuilt again in 1733 and subsequently known as "Royal Caroline". In 1749, she returned to the navy as HMS ‘Peregrine’, and continued in service until 1762.

Although the ‘Peregrine Galley’ was built as a one-off, her design continued to be admired for generations - it was borrowed for a replacement ‘Royal Caroline’ which served as a royal yacht from 1750 to 1820, and adapted for a series of frigates launched between 1757 and 1806.