Scale: Unknown. A model of the stern of HMS Royal Albert (1854), a 121 gun ship made entirely of wood and painted in realistic colours. The model depicts the stern section to the lower gundeck level and is painted a copper colour to indicated sheathing above which is a black hull with a broad horizontal white line along the ten gunports. It is also fitted with a rudder and stern frame in which is fitted a single two-bladed screw propeller. Internally the model is painted a white colour below the lower deck, a light blue/green between the deck and a slightly darker green above the lower gundeck. It is complete with a series of deck beams that has been partially planked together with a cross-shaped vertical trunking for raising and lowering the screw which is situated between the inner and outer stern posts. In the lower section of the hull is mounted a makeshift wooden box surrounding the prop shaft and mounts as proposed by Captain W. R. Mends to arrest a leak in 1855. jThe whole mounted on an original square wooden baseboard with a pair of vertical supports on its forward facing face at roughly where the turn of the bilge is. The wooden baseboard is painted black and is complete with an extensive handwritten label.