Scale: 1:48. A full hull model of a ship's launch (circa 1810) mad entirely in wood with metal fittings and painted and varnished. The hull is carvel-built, shallow-draft, with a transom-stern. It is varnished a golden brown finish and the strakes, gunwales and top of the stem post are painted black. The depicted vessel has provision for twenty-four oarsmen, double-banked. Fittings include twelve oars with black-painted handles and blades decorated in a chevron pattern; two small cannons, or saluting guns, facing fore and aft, mounted at the bow and stern, mounted on slide carriages; rudder and tiller; foremast and mainmast and two booms on a pair of supporting stands along the centreline of the vessel; rows of shot; and decorative inboard bulwarks in a diamond pattern. All the named fittings are attached to the boat. The model is displayed on a pair of shaped wooden crutches.