Object data
hide and rope
length 46.5 cm × diameter 3 cm
Lijnbaan 'De Groote Zeevaart'
Sample of Tiller Rope
Amsterdam, 1860 - 1862
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1142
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Sample of tiller rope, shroud-laid with three cable-laid strands of sixteen yarns each.
Tiller ropes of animal hide, preferably buffalo, proved to be of superior quality to hemp.
Literature
J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1142; J.C. Pilaar, Handleiding tot de kennis van het tuig, de masten, zeilen, enz. van het schip, Amsterdam 1858 (3rd ed. rev. by G.P.J. Mossel), pp. 69-70, 237-38
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Lijnbaan 'De Groote Zeevaart', Sample of Tiller Rope, Amsterdam, 1860 - 1862', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20054134
(accessed 19 December 2025 11:19:15).