Scale: 1:192. A contemporary full hull model of the HMS 'Warrior' (1860), a single-screw, broadside ironclad battleship. Model is carved from the solid and is decked, fully equipped and rigged. The ‘Warrior’ was built by Thames Ironworks, Blackwall, and measured 380 feet in length by 58 feet in the beam and a tonnage of 9210. Carrying 40 breech loading guns along the single deck, it was built in reply to the French warship ‘Gloire’, a powerful ironclad wooden hulled frigate of 1859. The powerful Penn horizontal trunk steam engine produced a speed of 14 knots and as a result of the ships superiority over any afloat, it never fired a shot in anger.

The ‘Warrior’ spent its sea-going service with the Channel Fleet until 1872 and was then re-fitted as a coastguard ship at Portland. It was eventually paid off in 1900 and converted as a torpedo depot ship at Portsmouth, being renamed ‘Vernon III’ in 1904. In 1923, the hull was stripped and used as a floating pontoon oil jetty at Pembroke. Finally in 1979, the ‘Warrior’ was towed to Hartlepool for restoration and is now moored afloat in Portsmouth Dockyard fully restored and open to the public.