This is an outstanding example of the sort of model demanded by the British Navy Board before it would commission a full-sized vessel; because of this, models of British warships are usually called Navy Board (or Admiralty) models. Instead of showing the ship’s sides fully covered with planks, the modelmaker has accentuated the hull’s bulbous shape by leaving the bottom part of the framing exposed. This model even had furniture— a tiny table and chairs for the captain’s cabin, now shown next to the model. *You are to prepare and send with your Draught a Solid or Model shaped exactly by the same with the Load Water Line, the height of the Decks and Wales, the Channels, Chainplates, Ports, Callers etc. marked thereon; And that everything proper to explain your Design be done both on the Draught and Solid in as particular manner as possible for our consideration and directions therein before you proceed on your Building or Rebuilding Letter from the Nany Board to the master shipbuilders at the Royal Dockyard, T716