Scale: 1:192. A half block model of the starboard side of the 16-gun corvette HMS Calliope (1884), made entirely in wood and painted tan brown below the waterline, and black above with two narrow gold stripes just below the gunwale running the entire length of the vessel. Hull details include raised bulwark at the bow; rows of portholes and a single row of rectangular gunports amidships; bilge keels; two battery positions fore and aft of amidships; two starboard hawse holes, stern gallery windows and decoration; and a well for the propeller which is either missing or was not originally fitted. Other fittings include stump bowsprit, foremast, mainmast and mizzen mast and a single tall funnel painted ochre. The model is displayed on a backboard painted off-white with a mahogany-stained frame with bevelled edge and with a very large tin- or zinc-plate painted label attached to the lower part of the frame. Hand-rendered on label ‘H M S "Calliope" Samoa-1889. On the 7th Mar 1889, in the face of a hurricane. A heavy head sea, a blinding spray which cut the faces of all who were exposed to it, with four men lashed to the wheel, She steamed out of Samoa harbour, thus performing a splendid feat of seamanship, engineering skill and endurance, while burning New Zealand coal. The officers who were principally engaged on the occasion were as follows: - Captain H.C. Kane Chief Engineer H.G. Bourke. Engineer W. Milton Senior Lieut. R.K. McAlpine. Assistant Engineer J.R. Roffey. Wood Sheathed screw corvette, 16 guns, 2770 tons, 3000 H.P. Built at Portsmouth in 1884.’.