Scale: 1:48. A contemporary full hull model of a steam launch of ‘HMS Bombay’ (1828) mounted on its original wooden baseboard in a wooden glazed display case. The hull is complete with black topsides and a rear-admiral’s flag on either bow, a rudder (tiller missing) and twin propeller shafts on brackets (propellers missing). Internally, the thwarts are removable and the engine bed and bearers are fitted amidships. Other equipment includes a full set of oars, two boathooks, a single boat anchor and cable, a bow painter, gratings and side benches.

Pinned to the wooden baseboard are two silver plaques, the first is inscribed: ‘This boat in the state represented was the means of saving the lives of 130 officers and men when the ship was destroyed by fire in the Rio De La Plata Dec. 14th 1864’ and the second, ‘Model of steam launch of HMS Bombay made from the piece of the mizzen mast and gear attached by J S Watts Esq. Master of the Bombay Scale ¼ inch to 1 foot’.