Scale: 1:16. A contemporary full hull model of a lifeboat circa 1851. Carved in the solid in ‘bread and butter’ fashion, it is complete with deck, eight thwarts and air cases at the bow and stern. Additional buoyancy is provided by rounded air cases under the gunwale internally and a cork fender externally. It is pulled by up to 14 oars through double thole pins, steered by rudder, and is fitted with six relieving tubes either side of the keel should the hull become swamped. There are two quarter bollards fitted just aft of the bow air case which were used for towing and also warping down to a casualty when using a canvas sea anchor, or drogue. The label reads ‘Lifeboat Fitted with air cases on the inside, and with cork fender on the outside. Proposed by Mr Harvey, late modeller at the Admiralty, Somerset House, in 1851’.