Scale: 1:24. A full hull, plank on frame model of the 'Elizabeth of Beverley' (1900), a keel, for transporting cargo on the River Humber. The model is decked, fully equipped and rigged with sails set. The hull is inscribed with ‘Elizabeth of Beverley’ on stern and carries the letter ‘E’ on pennant flying from the mast top. The ‘Elizabeth of Beverley’ measured 63 feet in length by 17 feet 5 inches in the beam and had a cargo capacity of about 80 tons.

Known as Humber keels, these flat-bottomed sailing vessels were employed on the waterways, which drain into the Trent and Humber, and were able to work in the estuary as far as Spurn Head. The flat hull enabled them to take the ground at low water, but required the use of leeboards when under sail. The tall single mast carried a large square main with a small topsail, and the rigging was designed such that, the use of winches enabled easy operation by one man in addition to the skipper.

These vessels traded with bricks from the Lincolnshire shore of the Humber, carried limestone to the Hull cement works, and carried coal as far inland as Sheffield. The last commercially sailing keel was the ‘Nar’ which was still in use in 1949.