Builder's full hull model of the 'Princess Elizabeth' (1950), a single screw trawler (powered fishing craft), built at a scale of 1:24. The model is decked, equipped and rigged. The hull is cutaway on the starboard side to show the fish holds, storerooms and engines. The model is inscribed with ‘Princess Elizabeth H135’ on the port and starboard bows, ‘H135’ on the port and starboard stern quarters and funnel and ‘Princess Elizabeth Hull’ is on the stern counter.

Owned by the Hellyer Brothers Ltd, Hull, ‘Princess Elizabeth’ was 189 feet in length, 32 feet in the beam and had a gross tonnage of 810. Although one of the finest trawlers afloat at the time, the vessel was lost, together with another Hull trawler, in exceptional weather conditions north of Iceland, only five years after being built. They both capsized because of the mass of ice which had formed on their upper works during the gale. There is a graphic description of this loss, based on radio reports given by the ship up to the moment of capsize in ‘Posted Missing’ by Alan Villiers (1956), a former Trustee of the NMM.