Scale: 1:48. A magnificent model still housed in its original case, with builder’s information plaques and display table. The end panel of the case opens and the plinth, on which the model rests, has a handle at each end to facilitate the model’s installation and removal. It’s an attractive subject, too, with its low-profile and streamlined hull. Unusually, the ventilators have been both gold- and silver-plated. The boats have been finely carved from solid wood. The rearmost gun has ammunition racks arranged around it, and watertight doors run the whole length of the deck.

HMS ‘Ghurka’ (1907) (the next vessel in the Royal Navy to bear the name was spelled ‘Gurkha’) was a ‘Tribal’- class destroyer, built by R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Co. Ltd., on the Tyne. 255 feet in length, 1000 tons displacement, armed with five 12-pounders, and a cruising speed of 33 knots, she had a short life. She was sunk off Dungeness on the 8 February 1917 after hitting a German mine. Only five of the crew survived.