Scale: 1:48. A contemporary full hull model in frame of an 18-gun brig (1830) mounted on its original baseboard together with its original glazed display case. The model clearly demonstrates an interesting system of framing using timber of extremely light scantlings (dimensions) in conjunction with a design of hull that was intended to give the vessel lightness, and hence speed, combined with strength. It also illustrates the process of building a wooden hull as planking has been fastened around the main wales, and the thin strips of wood near the keel and around the bilge, known as ribbands, are there to support the frames ready for planking up. Although pierced for 18 guns, it probably represents a naval vessel built to the dimensions of a 10-gun brig, with a length of 90 feet by 24 feet in the beam and a depth of 11 feet.