A splendid yacht that was ordered in 1711 by Max Emanuel, Duke of Bavaria and  governor of the Spanish Netherlands.

An English East Indiaman of 1740.

An East Indiaman was a ship operating under charter or license of the East India Companies of the major European trading powers in the 17th to 19th century.

A galiot of 1740.

The Dutch galiots were flat-bottomed ships with a rounded bow and aft, especially useful in shallow waters. Their development started in the 17th century.

They were used mainly as merchant ships in northern Europe and the Mediterranean.

A galeas from Stettin, around 1750,

a type of trade ship that was common in the Baltic Sea and North Sea from the 17th to the early 20th centuries.

The galeas was developed from the Dutch galliot.

The English brig Duke of Bedford of 1750.
Brigs were very popular in the 18th and early 19th century, due to their speed and maneuverability.
Both masts were square-rigged. Brigs were used as merchant ships and, with 10 to 18 cannon, as ships of war.
 
  

The Wapen von Hamburg of 1720.

On 12 November 1720 a third ship of this name was launched as a convoy ship by the City of Hamburg. 

A contemporary dockyard model of this vessel in 1 : 16 scale still exists. It is displayed in the Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte.

The French bomb ketch La Salamandre was launched in 1752.

This ship model is made only partly planked to allow for views into the ship's interior.

The HMS VICTORY of 1765, a

100 gun three-decker ship of the line. She was the flagship of Admiral Nelson 1805 in the battle of Trafalgar.

The USS Confederacy of 1778, built in style of the admiralty models.

Only two short years after she was launched, Confederacy was captured by the British off the coast of Cape Francois, West Indies, where she had been sent to retrieve supplies for the American army.

A Dutch bomb galiot of 1800.

Bomb galiots needed to withstand the powerful downwards recoil of the mortars.

Small beamy structures like the Dutch galiots were well suited for this. The bomb vessels were difficult to sail, in part because they typically had the masts stepped farther aft than would have been normal in other vessels of similar rig, in order to accommodate the mortars forward and provide a clear area for their forwards fire. 

The English 74 gun HMS Wellesley of 1815.

HMS Wellesley was built by the East India Company at Bombay and launched on 24th February 1815 as a 3rd rate 74 gun ship of the line. She was named for the Duke of Wellington.
She saw active service in the Far East on several occasions. She participated in the First Opium War, which resulted in Britain gaining control of Hong Kong.

The Prussian corvette Elisabeth of 1869.
The corvette Eisabeth was one of the first ships of the North German Alliance with propeller drive. She was the last warship built totally from wood.
The corvette was built 1866 - 1868 at the royal shipyard in Danzig and came into service 1869.
The experiences in the Crimean War proved that wooden ships had substantially lost combat capability and no more could be used for war purposes. On transfer to the Imperial German Navy in 1871 the corvette was used as training ships for sailors.

The French barge Le Canot Impérial was built in 1811 for Napoleon's inspection of the fortifications of Antwerp. This barge, which is 17.21 m long and 3.35 m wide, was built in only 21 days, including all the decorations.
Napoleon used this pretty small boat only once, on the occasion of his visit to Antwerp. Today the ship is on display in the entrance hall of the Musée de la Marine in Paris. 

A German zeesenboot of 1880.
The zeesenboot is a type of fishing vessel that was developed for the shallow coastal waters of the southern Baltic Sea coast. The fishing net was held by two booms at bow and stern while the ship was slowly drifting with wind abeam and sails close-hauled.
The type of vessel shown here in this model was the kind that was built in the 1880s after introducing the center board for stabilization, instead of the leeboards used before.