Scale: 1:48. A contemporary block model of the Second Rate ‘Ramillies’ (1749), a 90-gun, three-decker ship of the line. The number ‘6’ is on the port broadside. The gun ports are painted on the side of the hull in red. The figurehead has been carved approximately to shape out of a solid block.

Originally ‘Royal Katherine’, built at Woolwich in 1664, she was rebuilt in 1702 and renamed ‘Ramillies’ in 1706. Ramillies was ordered to be broken up and rebuilt 1 March 1739, [POR A/10]. She was rebuilt again at Portsmouth and launched in 1749. In 1756 it was the flagship of the Honourable John Byng at the Battle of Minorca that, fatefully, resulted in the loss of Minorca to the French and Byng’s execution on the grounds of failing to do his utmost in preventing the capture of the island (see BHC0380). The ‘Ramillies’ was wrecked in a storm off Bolt Head on the South Devon coast in 1760.