Scale: 1:48. A Navy Board full hull model of a 100-gun, three-decker ship of the line (circa 1720). The model is decked, equipped and rigged. The unusual use of a plain lion figurehead with no supporting figures suggests that the model depicts a first-rate type rather than an individual ship. Rigged in the Royal Naval College Museum, it was largely restored at the National Maritime Museum in 1946.

There were only six first-rate warships in the Royal Navy. Like the ‘Royal William’ (which this model was once thought to represent), this type of ship would have been about 174 feet in length and 50 feet in breadth. Ships of this type carried twenty-eight 32-pound guns on the gun deck, twenty-eight 24-pounders on the middle deck, twenty-eight 12-pounders on the upper deck, along with twelve 6-pounders on the quarterdeck and four on the forecastle. The ship’s full complement was 800 men.