Object data
wood and brass
height 8.3 cm × width 41 cm × depth 38 cm × calibre 4 mm
height 17.5 cm
width 54.3 cm × depth 57.3 cm
Rijkswerf Rotterdam
Model of a Gun Position on the Afterdeck
Rotterdam, Netherlands, Netherlands, Netherlands, 1837
Conservation
- Ab Hoving, June 2004: several missing hatches reconstructed; woodworm treatment
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-102
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Construction model of the afterdeck of a paddle steamer with a 60-pounder shell gun on slide and pivot.
The wooden barrel is 15 cm long and has a 4 mm calibre. It has an elevating screw in the button. The slide consists of a wooden frame with two main ledges and two thin ledges in between, with three cross-beams underneath with balls in the corners, running on the tracks of the pivot; the fore and rear rise to stop the carriage. The upper carriage consists of two parallel cheeks with four steps each, the upper parts with the trunnion holes made of solid brass, and connected by the axletrees, an inclined transom and a flat transom supporting the stool bed in the middle. The axletrees have no trucks; against the fore of the cheeks two small rollers are fitted, which only run on the tracks of the main ledges if the two rollers on a hinge attached to the hind axletree are jacked-up and run on the tracks of the middle pair of ledges. Braces around the hind axletrees secure the carriage to the slide. The model particularly demonstrates two designs for the removable aft section of the railing, consisting of sections of gunwale, posts and boards: the port section stands vertically and has port-lids with hinges, while the starboard section follows the line of the counter and the boards have to be removed entirely when lowering the railing.
The model represents two proposals for the railing of the aft gun position of the Dutch paddle steamer Phoenix (Rotterdam, 1834-36, length 39 metres, 7 guns).1 Neither design was chosen. Instead the design as shown by model NG-MC-804 was accepted.
Scale (according to Obreen)2 1:20.
Literature
L.K. Turk, Gegevens en tekeningen van geschut en munitie, verstrekt op verschillende schepen en sloepen van de Koninklijke Marine, s.l. [c. 1848], manuscript in NSM, inv. no. A.0356(0006), p. 128; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 102; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 45; W.G.M.H. Canisius, ‘De ontwikkeling van scheepsgeschut bij de Nederlandse marine in 1780-1880’, Erfgoed van Industrie en Techniek 2 (1993), no. 2, pp. 43-62, no. 3, pp. 80-87, p. 58
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Rotterdam, Model of a Gun Position on the Afterdeck, Rotterdam, 1837', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.243912
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