Scale: 1:192. Waterline model of the Dreadnought battleship HMS 'Queen Elizabeth' (1913). The model is decked, equipped and rigged. It is displayed on a shared scenic base alongside the destroyer 'Cygnet' (SLR1500), an Admiralty steam drifter and an Admiral’s barge, portraying a scene from the mid-1930s.

Built at Portsmouth, ‘Queen Elizabeth’ was the lead ship of her class and measured 650 feet in length (W.L.) by 94 feet in the beam, displacing 27500 tons (31000 tons fully laden). She carried 1234 men and was armed with eight 15-inch guns, twelve 6-inch guns, two 13-pounders and four 21-inch torpedo tubes.

Completed in January 1915 ‘Queen Elizabeth’ first saw action in March of that year with the bombardment of the forts at the Dardanelles. In February 1917 it became the flagship of the Commander of the Fleet Sir David Beatty who had previously used the Dreadnought-battleship HMS 'Iron Duke' as his flagship. In 1919 ‘Queen Elizabeth’ became flagship of Sir Charles Madden as commander of the newly constituted Atlantic Fleet.

Between circa 1937–40 ‘Queen Elizabeth’ was reconstructed and rearmed and joined the Home Fleet in February 1941. In May it took part in Operation Tiger (Malta Convoy) and assisted in the evacuation of Crete. In December 1941 it was damaged by a limpet mine placed by Italian frogmen at Alexandria and was sent to the United States for repairs. In 1944 it was sent to the Pacific and served in the 3rd Battle Squadron (East Indies). It was broken up at Dalmuir in 1948.

The modelmaker Norman Ough began as an art student. His models attracted attention at the 1935 Wembley exhibition and he worked for the Imperial War Museum for a time. He was totally dedicated to his craft and was sometimes taken to hospital suffering from malnutrition through ignoring more basic necessities. He died in 1963.