Scale: 1:64. Working full hull model of the destroyer HMS 'Vigo' (1945). The model is decked, equipped and rigged. The name ‘Vigo’ is painted on the port and starboard midship superstructure and ‘D231’ is painted on the port and starboard bows and the stern. Five sections of the deck are removable with facilities for fitting a motor to the propellers although no motor was fitted when it was purchased from the maker. The model was made from drawings produced by Norman Ough and is depicted between 1954–58 as a gunnery training ship at the Royal Navy gunnery school HMS ‘Excellent’ (Whale Island), Portsmouth.

Built at Govan by Fairfield Shipbuilding Company, ‘Vigo’ measured 379 feet in length by 40 feet in the beam. An early ‘Battle’-class destroyer, ‘Vigo’ was placed in reserve after completion in December 1946, before joining the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla (Mediterranean) from 1949–54. Placed on the disposal list in 1958 she went to the breakers’ yard at Faslane in 1964.