Scale: 1:32. A clinker-built contemporary full hull model of the ‘Swallow’ (1779), a 14-gun brig, built in the Georgian style. The model is decked, equipped and scenic. It is depicted on a slipway and can be used for launching demonstrations. There is painted decoration on the stern including a winged fish and the name ‘Swallow’. Sweep ports were fitted between the midship gunports.

Built by Ladd, Dover, the ‘Swallow’ measured 79 feet along the upper deck by 27 feet in the beam, displacing 226 tons. It was armed with fourteen 6-pounders. ‘Swallow’ was one of a class of brig-rigged sloops built in private shipyards for the Royal Navy. Its career at sea was short lived: in 1781 it was driven ashore by four American privateers and wrecked near Long Island.