Scale: Unknown. A half block model of the starboard side of the three-masted cargo ship Sutherlandshire (1882), made entirely in wood, painted and polished. The hull is polished wood made up of several horizontal sections below the waterline and black above with a broad off-white stripe running the entire length of the hull onto which is painted black rectangles that resemble gunports. Hull details include a clipper bow; single strake and gunwale in polished wood; and rudder. Fittings include figurehead; foredeck and poop deck; a stump bowsprit, foremast, mainmast and mizzen mast; and long deckhouse positioned between the foremast and mainmast. The model is displayed on a rectangular wooden backboard with bevelled edges, the lower half of which is mahogany the upper half, a light-coloured wood, probably maple, the dividing point indicating the waterline of the depicted vessel. Hand-rendered in centre of backboard beneath model ‘Sutherlandshire’. Hand-rendered on backboard ‘Russell & Co Shipbuilders Greenock & Port Glasgow. Principal Dimensions length as per register 258.0 Breath extreme per register 58.0 Depth hold. Ship Sutherlandshire 258 X 38 X 22.9 built for Messrs Thomas Law & Co Glasgow By Russell & Co 1882.’. On plaque attached to right-hand side of backboard ‘305 "Sutherlandshire" merchantman 1882 iron sailing ship built at Greenock Wrecked in 1900. Dimensions Length 258. 8ft Beam 38.2 ft Tons 1549’.