Scale: 1:48. A block design model of a 74-gun, two-decker ship of the line (circa 1780). The label reads ‘P’, ‘84A’ and ‘Ship of 74 guns, about 1780(?). Catalogued (1923) under No.45 as Neptune, 90, 1756. The Dimensions are those of a 90-gun ship on the Establishment of 1745, to which the 'Neptune' was built, but the model clearly represents a two deck ship not more than 74 guns. It is possible that the model represents an unrealised project for reducing the 'Neptune' to a third rate. The previous ship of the name was so reduced from 90 to a 74 in 1749, but had been built to the Dimensions of the Establishment of 1719 and was thus a smaller ship than that represented by the model’.