Scale: 1:1200. Six waterline models displayed on a shared scenic base. The vessels represented are HMS 'Clyde' (1934), a submarine; HMS 'Javelin' (1938), a destroyer; HMS 'London' (1927), a cruiser; HMS 'Queen Elizabeth' (1913), a Dreadnought battleship; HMS 'Severn' (1934), a submarine; HMS 'Warspite' (1913), a Dreadnought battleship. Models are decked, equipped and rigged.

Six models in one, that together depict a scene prior to the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, made to the standard miniature scale of 1:1200. HMS ‘Javelin’ (1938) and the submarines ‘Clyde’ (1934) and ‘Severn’ (1934) are moored at a quay, or jetty, next to one another. HMS ‘London’ (1927) is forward of them. The ‘veteran’ battleships are moored in the harbour. It all looks convincing but this harbour scene could never have taken place. 'Javelin' not completed until 1939, by which time both 'Queen Elizabeth' and 'London' were in dockyard hands for major rebuilds.

HMS ‘Warspite’ (1913) had been present at the Battle of Jutland, sustaining 15 hits and coming close to foundering. She survived, however, and went on to take an active part in the Second World War. She was at the Battles of Narvik, in 1940, and Crete, the following year, where she sustained damage by a heavy bomb hit. She was again hit, this time by a German glider bomb, at Salerno, and had to go to Rosyth for extensive repairs. She was deployed at Normandy, in June 1944, with only three functioning main turrets successfully bombarding the ports of Brest and Le Havre, and Walcheren Island. ‘Warspite’ was sold for scrap in 1947 but ran aground off Cornwall on the way to the breakers and was broken up in situ over the following five years.

Launched the same year as ‘Warspite’, HMS ‘Queen Elizabeth’ (1913), 600 feet in length, 29,150 tons displacement, was powered by Parsons steam turbines which, at 75,000 horsepower, gave her a service speed of 24 knots. She missed the Battle of Jutland as she was undergoing a refit, but all four of her sister ships were there. She later took part in the Dardanelles campaign. She had two major refits between the wars, the second of which was a complete reconstruction and was not finished until 1941. She was mined by Italian frogmen in the Mediterranean, sank in shallow water, but successfully raised and temporarily patched up before permanent repairs could be carried out in the United States. After serving in the Far East, ‘Queen Elizabeth’ returned to Britain in 1945 and was scrapped three years later.