Scale 1:48. A contemporary half block model of 'Queen' (1839), a 110-gun, three-decker ship of the line, built in ‘bread and butter’ construction. Model is mounted on a cream coloured backboard with a dark wooden frame, to which is attached a plaque inscribed ‘H M S Queen 110 guns Built at Portsmouth 1839 (205)’. The 'Queen’ was the first of the large sailing warships designed by Sir William Symonds. It was laid down in Portsmouth in 1833 under the name 'Royal Frederick’, and originally-rated as a 120 gun ship. Measuring 204 feet along the gun deck by 60 feet in the beam, it had a tonnage of 3104 burden. Symonds introduced iron riders, (diagonal bracing of the hold) instead of the heavy and bulky wooden riders used in the earlier vessels, which allowed larger and stronger ships to be built increasing the space internally.

The 'Queen’ was said to have been a very sea-worthy ship with many of the senior officers writing to Symonds praising it very highly in all weathers. When all the principal sails were set, it gave a coverage of 30,000 square feet, equivalent to two thirds of an acre. Serving as the flagship in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, the 'Queen’ took part in the Crimean War and was set on fire by a shell during the bombardment of Sebastopol on 11 October 1854. Cut down to two decks, it was converted to a screw battleship of 86 guns in 1859 and eventually in 1871, withdrawn from service and sold for breaking at Castles Yard, Charlton.