Scale: 1:192. The ‘British Gratitude’ (1942) has been depicted in wartime rig with paravanes, light anti-aircraft machine guns, and anti-torpedo net booms and posts. The model has been scratch-built with, perhaps, only the propellers having been bought ‘off the shelf’. It has been displayed in several of the Museum’s galleries since it was first loaned to the NMM in 1969. It was subsequently gifted to the Museum in the 1990s.

‘British Gratitude’ was owned and operated by the British Tanker Company. Built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, it was 470 feet in length and 8463 tons gross, very small by contemporary standards. It survived the Second World War and continued to have an active career under the ownership of British Petroleum. She was eventually sold for breaking up in 1959.