Scale: 1:48. A contemporary block design model of the ‘Duke’ (1776), a 90-gun, three-decker ship of the line. The number ‘15’ is on the port broadside and the name ‘Duke’ is on the stern. The plaque is inscribed: ’”Duke” 90 guns 1776. Built at Plymouth. Hospital ship 1799 Broken up 1843. Dimensions: - Gun deck 177ft. 6in Beam 50ft. Scale 1/48 (1/2” to 1')’.

The ‘Duke’ was built at Plymouth by J. Pownall and designed by Sir J. Williams. It measured 178 feet along the gun deck by 50 feet in the beam, displacing 1943 tons. Commissioned in 1778, it took part in the Battle of Ushant in July of that year under the captaincy of W. Brereton. Her hull was coppered in 1780.

In April 1781 the ‘Duke’ took part in Darby’s relief of Gibraltar and in December it participated in Kempenfelt’s action against the French. In April 1782, now in the West Indies, the ‘Duke’ was involved in the Battle of the Saints in the Dominica Channel, the final sea battle of the American Revolutionary War (1775–83).

In 1797 at Spithead, the ‘Duke’ was one of the 16 ships of the line of the Channel Fleet whose crews mounted a collective mutiny, refusing to sail. The mutineers’ demands were concerned with improved pay and conditions, and better treatment in general. After serving as a quarantine ship at Stangate 1834–42, it was broken up in 1843.