Object data
iron
height 16.5 cm × width 14 cm × depth 11 cm
Charles Camell & Co. Ltd Cyclop-Steel and Iron-Works
Sample of Armour Plate
Sheffield, c. 1868
Inscriptions
- inscription, on the side: SHEFFIELD / CHARLES / CAMELL & Co / LIMITED
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1221
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Sample of an 6.5-inch armour plate.
Two sides are sawn and polished, two are rough as though broken or torn. The two remaining, opposing sides are the faces of the armour plate, with a thickness of 6.5 inches.
According to the inventory list, number 1221 originally contained three samples of armour plate, 6.5 and 8 inches thick.1 The other two samples were not found.
Literature
J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1221; A.J. Hoving, Message in a Model: Stories from the Navy Model Room of the Rijksmuseum, Florence, OR 2013, p. 211
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Charles Camell & Co. Ltd Cyclop-Steel and Iron-Works, Sample of Armour Plate, Sheffield, c. 1868', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245034
(accessed 10 November 2024 08:44:28).