Scale: 1:48. A full hull exhibition model of the coastal ketch ‘Hobah’ (1879) built plank on frame, with a realistic 'working’ finish for inclusion in a West Country port diorama. The model is fully rigged with the sails bent on to yards and stowed whilst the deck is cluttered with a variety of gear and rigging.

The ‘Hobah’ was built by Thomas Gray in 1879 in a small cove just off Mylor Creek in Cornwall. She is typical of the south-Cornish vessels with a straight stem and a long steeply sloping transom over a deep sternpost. Measuring 78 feet in length by 19 feet in the beam and a tonnage of 56 net, the Hobah traded around the southern coast as well as across to the western French coast and Channel Isles. On her trial trip, she was wind bound in Ryde Bay and was run down by a passing steamer. Fortunately the crew managed to climb aboard the steamer before she eventually sank. She was later raised and taken to Falmouth for repairs.

During her active career lasting until 1945, she carried a variety of cargo such as coal, manure, and Penryn granite for the building of lighthouses and breakwaters around the UK and in the Mediterranean. In 1922, the ‘Hobah’ was the last vessel to use Newquay harbour commercially, discharging manure in bags before setting off for Appledore in ballast.