Object data
iron
total: length 29.8 cm
span 15.2 cm
anchor stock: width 7.7 cm
Rijkswerf Willemsoord
Model of an Anchor
Den Helder, Marseille, 1864
Conservation
- Ab Hoving, May 1995: missing parts reconstructred; revarnished
- Restauratieatelier Scheepsmodellen, 2009: restored
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1158
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Iron model of a ‘securitas’ anchor.
This anchor does not have a normal stock, but is fitted instead with a short stock set perpendicularly to the arms, and the flukes are set in the same plane as the arms. Arms and stock turn in the forked end of the shank, the stock forces the flukes into the ground. By means of a rope attached to a shackle at the crown, the stock can be set in the correct position and the anchor can also be raised. The top of the shank has a shackle.
The ‘securitas’ anchor was an improved version of Hawkins’ patent anchor and was patented in the Netherlands by L.J. Vonk in The Hague in 1853; the shape of the anchor stock was changed. It proved satisfactory as a day anchor on trials with Wassenaer, but would not hold in mud, as it transpired later with Zoutman in Japan. It was also difficult to cat and to fish.
Scale (estimate) 1:5.
Literature
N. van der Werf, ‘Rapport en beschrijving van het anker Securitas’, Verhandelingen en berigten betrekkelijk het zeewezen (1859), no. 1, pp. 72-80; J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1203; G. Doorman, Het Nederlandsch octrooiwezen en de techniek der 19de eeuw, The Hague 1947, p. 335, no. 2185; A.J. Hoving, Message in a Model: Stories from the Navy Model Room of the Rijksmuseum, Florence, OR 2013, pp. 200-03
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Willemsoord, Model of an Anchor, Den Helder, 1864', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244971
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