Scale: 1:384. A spirited and carefully made example of sailors’ handiwork, made by the men who served on the actual ship. A plaque on the model has been inscribed ‘Presented to their Royal Highnesses Princess Elizabeth & Princess Margaret by the ship's company of HMS Duke of York Clyde 1947’. The model was given to the Museum by His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh in 1957. It is a diminutive depiction of one of the biggest and most powerful battleships ever built in a British yard.

The ‘Duke of York’ (1940), built at Clydebank, was one of a class of five ships laid down in 1937, armed with a new 14-inch gun. These ‘King George V’-class ships were distinctive in that two of their three turrets had quadruple mountings with four guns side by side. In common with the rest of the class, HMS ‘Duke of York’ had ten 14-inch guns, its length overall was 745 feet, it was 35,000 tons, and its cruising speed was 28 knots. It took the Prime Minister to the United States at the end of 1941 and it sank the ‘Scharnhorst’ in1943.