Scale 1:48. A contemporary full hull model of a proposed frigate (circa 1815), a 60-64 gun, two-decker ship of the line. Constructed in the plank on frame method, the model is decked and fully equipped including stump masts, bowsprit and brass canon on carriages. At this scale, the model represents a ship measuring 151 feet along the gun deck by 43 feet in the beam, with a tonnage of 1230 builder’s old measurement. The armament consisted of thirty 24-pounder cannon on the gun deck, twenty-six 42-pounder carronades on the upper deck and four 24-pounder carronades on the upper deck.

This type of frigate was one of four built in 1813–15 following the outbreak of the Anglo-American War of 1812, in response to the large heavy American frigates such as the ‘President’. Similarly, an enlarged version of the ‘Psyche’ was built on Lake Ontario as well as a number of East Indiamen bought in 1795–96, which were also fitted with two tiers of guns. The model bears a close resemblance to the ‘Java’, built in 1815, but is too short. Therefore, it is thought that it was built to illustrate the disposition of the large amount of guns on the two decks.