Scale: 1:48. A block model of the ‘Foudroyant’ (1798), an 80-gun, two-decker ship of the line. A block model was much simpler to make than the typical Georgian model of the period, and therefore more useful in having the principles of the design approved. The figurehead is left as a block, the gunports and ales are painted on the sides and the lower part of the hull is painted white. Some of the stern carvings are reproduced, and the timber heads, which are used to attach rigging lines, are shown round the forecastle.

The ‘Foudroyant’ was built at Plymouth and named after a captured French ship. It became a gunnery training ship at Plymouth in 1861 and in 1890 it was sold to become a boys’ training ship. It went on a fundraising cruise round Britain but was wrecked on Blackpool Sands in 1897. Many parts of the wreck were sold as souvenirs.