Scale: 1:48. A contemporary full hull model of the merchantman ‘Scotia’ (1836). The wooden hull has been built in ‘bread and butter’ fashion and is complete with a large variety of fittings including a full set of boats both in the waist and rigged from davits over the stern. Although the identification of the particular ship is uncertain, it was probably a ship of 657 tons built in Newcastle and employed mainly between London and the East Indies. At this scale, the ship measured 132 feet in length by 31 feet in the beam, and was not listed in Lloyd’s after 1861.

It is unlikely that the guns in the waist were ever rigged and the signal flags from the commercial code of 1857 can be seen flying from the top of the mizzen mast. However, the actual hoist of ‘F.W.G.T’ does not appear in this code and therefore does not represent any known signal.