Scale: 1:32. A contemporary full hull model of a two-masted paddle steamer (1825), partially rigged with a bowsprit, skylights, hatches and a windlass on deck, the whole of which is mounted on crutches and wooden baseboard. The shape of the funnel and design of the paddle wheels suggests a very early date. However, the model is fitted with oscillating cylinders and engines of the type that did not come into general use until after Maudslay’s patent of 1827, though one vessel, the ‘Aaron Manby’ of 1822 is known to have something of the same kind.
At this scale the model depicts a vessel measuring 80 feet in length by 18 feet in the beam, and is of the type that would have been used on navigable rivers, estuaries and coastal waters.