Scale: 1:48. A contemporary builder’s full hull model of the four-masted ships ‘Drumblair’, ‘Drumburton’ and ‘Drumeltan’ (1883). The hull has been made in ‘bread and butter’ fashion, which is clearly visible from below the waterline. On deck is a wide variety of fittings mostly made in varnished wood or silver-plated metal including bilge pumps, ventilation cowlings, stump masts and bowsprit, and a very ornately carved wooden, full length female figurehead.

Measuring 266 feet in length by 40 feet in the beam and a tonnage of 1900 gross, all three ships were built on the River Clyde, Scotland, by Russell and Co., for the Liverpool shipowners Gillison and Chadwick. All three ships traded around the world with a variety of cargoes with the ‘Drumeltan’ wrecked in 1894, the ‘Drumburton’ wrecked in 1904 and the ‘Drumblair’ sunk by collision in 1915, all in the Pacific.

The 'Drumeltan' was subsequently raised and re-rigged as a bark in 1900, then converted to a schooner in 1922. She was converted to a sewerage barge before sinking off New York in 1936 after colliding with the oil barge 'Newark' while in tow of the tug 'Chapman Brothers'.