Scale: 1:48. A block design model of the ‘Lion’ (1725), a 50-gun, small two-decker. Regular parallel lines have been inscribed across the poop deck. The name ‘Lion’ is on port broadside and ‘The Lion’ on the stern. In spite of the inscription on the model it does not relate to a ship named the ‘Lion’. The gun dimensions are those of a 50-gun ship on the Establishment of 1719, whereas the ‘Lion’ of 1710 and her successor of 1738 were both 60-guns.

This type of ship, like the ‘Falkland’ (SLR0414), was the smallest of the vessels used in the line of battle, and they were mainly used in escort duties. They were 134 feet long, 26 feet broad, weighed 755 tons burden, and had a full complement of 300 men. They carried twenty-two 18-pound guns on their gun decks, twenty-two 9-pounders on their upper decks, four 6-pounders on their quarterdecks and two 6-pounders on their forecastles.