Scale: 1:24. A contemporary full hull model of the 'Nore' (1796), a lightship, built in 'bread and butter' construction, gauged out internally. The model is decked, equipped and rigged with the two lanterns rigged on a yard, which can be raised and lowered during times of use.

Said to be the first lightship owned by Trinity House, it was built by Hill and Mellish at Poplar, London and launched in 1766. Measuring approximately 51 feet along the deck by 16 feet in the beam, it had an approximate tonnage of 58 burden. The first recorded use of a moored lightship for the direction of shipping dates from 1732, when a Robert Hamblyn and David Avery established a lightship at the Nore in exchange for shipping dues to mark the approaches to the shoal-infested approaches to the Thames and Medway.