Scale: 1:64. A contemporary full hull model of a 90-gun, three-decker ship of the line (circa 1760), built in the Georgian style. The model is decked. This vessel measured 176 feet in length (gun deck) by 49 feet in the beam, displacing approximately 1830 tons burden. It was armed with twenty-eight 32-pounders on the gun deck, thirty 18-pounders on the middle deck, thirty 12-pounders on the upper deck and two 9-pounders on the quarterdeck.

The slightly unfinished appearance of this model – neither the figurehead nor the quarter figures have been carved – suggests that it was a design for the first of the second rates to carry 28 to 30 guns on each of the three complete decks and only two guns on the quarterdeck. The gun deck arrangements and overall measurements suggest that the model depicts the ‘Sandwich’ (1759), ‘Ocean’ (1761) or ‘Blenheim’ (1761).

The ‘Sandwich’ was Rodney’s flagship in his action with de Guichen in 1780. De Grasse was taken prisoner on the same ship after the Battle of The Saintes. The ‘Blenheim’ fought at Cape St. Vincent in 1797 and was lost with all hands in a hurricane in 1807 with Sir Thomas Troubridge aboard. The ‘Ocean’ was with Kempenfelt when he captured part of de Guichen’s convoy in 1781. The model was previously in the Mercury Collection and became part of the Caird Collection in 1929.