Scale: 1:24. Full hull design model of a ship's pinnace (circa 1838), built plank on frame in clinker fashion. One of a set of ten boat designs (SLR0768-SLR0777) proposed by Sir William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy, to be carried by a first-rate man-of-war. Built in the Georgian style, the hull is mounted on turned wooden pillars above a beaded wooden baseboard on which is the number ‘2’ on a paper label. Another loose paper label reads ‘Boat barge 1838-12 32ft For Man-of-war First rate 1838 - by Symonds 1/2 scale 5" Length 17" Beam excluding rudder’. The hull is complete with six thwarts, bottom boards, seating in the stern sheets, and a rudder fitted with a tiller.

The origins of the pinnace can be traced as far back as 1618 when it was one of the three boat types carried by warships. By the beginning of the 19th century, it was available in eight lengths ranging from 28 to 37 feet, built in either double diagonal or clinker fashion, and could be rowed or sailed. They were sometimes known as barges and used for a variety of jobs from transporting stores and men when at anchor, to assisting in survey work in shallow waters.