Scale: 1:48. A contemporary half block model of the 4-gun wooden screw-sloop ‘Amazon’ (1865). The solid hull is painted with black topsides and coppered lower hull, the whole of which is mounted on its original wooden backboard.

The ‘Amazon’ was one of a class of six wooden-hulled sloops, which were designed and built during a time when the larger warships were being constructed of iron. The navy still thought it an economical proposition to produce these smaller cruising vessels in composite construction, i.e. wooden planking on iron frames. She was built at Pembroke Dockyard and measured 187 feet in length by 36 feet in the beam and a tonnage of 1597. The ‘Amazon’ had a very short career as she sunk as a result of a collision with the collier ‘Osprey’, which also sank, just off of Start Point in the Channel in 1865.