Scale: 1:48. A contemporary full hull model of HMS Caledonia (1808), a first rate 120 gun ship. The hull is painted copper below the waterline to indicate sheathing, with the topsides painted in black and cream bands along the three main gun decks. The deck is made of several large sheets of wood which have been stained and varnished to resemble planking, and fitted with five deck gratings along the centreline. The inboard hull and deck fittings are finished in a red colour. The model is fitted with a solid block of wood to indicate a figurehead at the bow, and a pair of roundhouses on the forecastle bulkhead. The waist area is enclosed and is complete with four deck beam skids supported by turned wooden pillars which allow access to the two main hatches on the upper gun deck. Underneath the poop deck is fitted the cabin bulkhead which has decoration, windows, and doors painted on it. At the stern, the quarter galleries and fully enclosed stern galleries have been decorated with balustrades, all of which have been painted on paper and applied to the shaped wooden stern framework. There is an old display label mounted on hardboard which reads`132 Caledonia, 120 guns, 1808 Scale 1/48 (1/4" to 1') Ordered as a 100 gun ship at Plymouth in 1794 but not actually begun till 1805 Renamed Dreadnought in 1857 and took the place of the former ship of that name as a seaman's hospital at Greenwich Broken up in 1875. Dimensions: - Gun deck 205ft Beam 58ft 8in'. The model is mounted on a pair of turned wooden pillars on the keel and a pair of brass tube pillars at the turn of the bilge, all of which are fitted to its original stained and varnished wooden baseboard with four bun feet.