Scale: 1:48. What looks on the surface to be a ‘run-of-the-mill’ shipbuilder’s model in fact has a hinged aft deck, which opens to reveal the internal arrangement. On raising this lid we can see the placing of cabins, galley, mess room, toilets, and the access to the engine room. We can identify the captain’s cabin, because it has more space, a larger bed and radiator, curtains at the portholes and a rug on the floor. The large cargo hatch area also lifts off in one piece to gain access to the lighting paraphernalia.

Pollock’s shipbuilders of Faversham, Kent, had 12 models in the Shipwrights’ Exhibition of 1947, including several with ‘decks to hinge up, to view machinery and accommodation lighted by electricity’. One of these, depicting the ‘Landina’ (1934), was acquired by the NMM.

In 1909 James Pollock, Sons & Co. Ltd., pioneered the fitting of internal combustion oil engines into numerous small vessels. As a result of this they built up a business, building, owning, and operating standard motor coasters. The ‘Landina’ was the first of her class and one of the largest of Pollock’s coasting craft. The design proved very popular with marvellous sea-going qualities and they could be safely delivered under their own power to owners anywhere in the world.