Scale: 1:48? A contemporary full hull model of the 121-gun three-decker HMS ‘Royal Albert’ (1854) fully rigged, equipped and mounted on a wooden display baseboard. The model is highly detailed in all its aspects, especially in the detail and quality of the rigging. Deck fittings include hammocks stored in the rails on the bulwarks, and a full set of boats in the waist and rigged from davits over the quarter galleries. The hull is complete with the guns set in the ports, a half bust figurehead of Prince Albert and open galleries at the stern.

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.