Scale: 1:24. A contemporary full hull model of a royal or state barge as used by Queen Anne (circa 1710), built plank on frame in the Navy Board style. Model is partially decked and planked, and is complete with ten oarsmen. The original figure of Queen Anne was lost so a replacement was made by Mr Varrall in the NMM workshop in 1965, which was eventually returned to him, with the arrival of the present figure, carved by Mr R. A. Lightley and presented to the Museum in 1975. The ten rowing figures, clad in the uniforms of the Royal Bargemen, are all contemporary. The model is made largely from boxwood, with the carved decoration around the gunwale being of the highest quality.

This type of barge, known as a shallop, was commonly used for taking royalty to and from warships in anchorage and along the River Thames. Built in clinker fashion, it measured 36 feet in length by seven feet in the beam. Remarkably, two full-size examples of these boats still survive: Queen Mary’s shallop of 1689 (BAE0039) is in the NMM collection, and the carvel-built barge of Charles II, which is owned by the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth.