Scale: Unknown. A half block model of the starboard side of the 90-gun battleship HMS Albion (1842) made entirely in wood and painted in realistic colours. The hull is painted copper brown below the waterline, with a narrow white stripe above, black above the waterline and with a broad white stripe that runs along the single row of gunports. Fittings include an exaggeratedly proportioned beak head; stump bowsprit, foremast, mainmast and mizzen mast; and rudder and single two-bladed propeller. The model is displayed on a rectangular wooden backboard painted off-white with a decorative French-polished frame moulding. On typewritten paper label applied to bottom right-hand corner of backboard ‘Model of HM Ship Albion cut down to lower deck for covering with 4inch iron plates from 6ft below the water mark to the gunwhale for immediate use by Rear Admiral Thomas Henderson. Dawlish, April 1861’. There is also a handwritten paper label applied to the bottom centre of the backboard.