Scale: 1:48. A contemporary block design model of the ‘Bellona’ (1760), a 74-gun, two-decker ship of the line.

The ‘Bellona’ was designed by Sir T. Slade and built at Chatham. It measured 168 feet along the gun deck, by 47 feet in the beam. Its armament comprised twenty-eight 32-pounders on the main deck, twenty-eight 18-pounders on the upper deck, fourteen 9-pounders on the quarterdeck and four 9-pounders on the forecastle.

Commissioned into the Navy in 1860 as part of Hawke’s Fleet, the ‘Bellona’ served for over 50 years, taking part in such actions as the Relief of Gibraltar (1782) and the Battle of Copenhagen (1801). It was broken up around 1814. For other models of the ‘Bellona’, see also SLR0503, a skeleton model and SLR0338, a full hull model.