Scale: 1:48. A block design model of the ‘Rippon’ (1735), a 60-gun, two-decker ship of the line. Like Anson’s ‘Centurion’, it was built to the modified 1719 Establishment as an intermediate stage between the 1719 and 1733 Establishments. The ‘Rippon’ was a foot longer and a foot wider than the conventional ‘1719s’.

It was 145 feet long and 40 feet in the beam and carried about 400 men. It was armed with twenty-four 24-pound guns on its gun deck, twenty-six 9-pounders on its upper deck, eight 6-pounders on its quarterdeck and two 6-pounders on its forecastle.

The original ‘Rippon’ served in the Mediterranean and the West Indies before being completely rebuilt in 1735. Launched from Woolwich in March 1735, the new vessel spent its first six years in home waters before joining the Cartagena expedition in 1741. It remained in the West Indies on the Jamaica station. See also SLR0429.