Scale: 1:48. A contemporary full hull model of the 121-gun three-decker ‘HMS Royal Albert’ (1854), equipped with stump masts and bowsprit, and mounted on its original wooden display baseboard. The model is complete with a limited number of fittings including deck gratings, guns rigged through the gun ports (on the port side only) and a wheel just under the quarterdeck. The hull is painted in the black and white pattern and is fitted with a half bust figurehead of Prince Albert. The stern is fully enclosed (as opposed to SLR0876) and probably shows the ship when alterations to her stern were made whilst she was still on the stocks.

The ‘Royal Albert’ was designed by Oliver Lang in 1831 as a sailing warship, but it was later converted for screw whilst still on the stocks. Measuring 220 feet in length by 60 feet in the beam and a tonnage of 3463 displacement, she was eventually launched in 1854. In 1854, she was fitted out to carry troops and became part of the Black Sea fleet in 1855. In 1861 she was declared unfit for further service, and eventually sold to Castle’s of Charlton for breaking in 1884.