Object data
wood and brass
height 17.9 cm × width 19.4 cm × depth 13.4 cm
Rijkswerf Vlissingen
Model of a Ship's Rail with Armour Plating
Flushing, 1858
Inscriptions
- label, on the ship's side: 123 former inventory label
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-123
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Wooden construction model of part of the side of a ship with armour plating, mounted on a base.
The model is now incomplete. Only one of the eight armour plates has been recovered. It stands on the gunwale with two pins and has a support at the back to keep it upright. The model has a deck at mid-height with a gun port flanked by a railing with hammock netting on the inside.
The armour plates demonstrated by the model were used during action to protect the gun crew against rifle fire. They were used on screw steamers 4th class and gunboats. The ones mounted on the gunwale were 7 millimetre thick and weighed 14 pounds, the plates for the gun ports weighed 20 pounds.
Scale (according to Obreen)1 1:20.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 123
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Vlissingen, Model of a Ship's Rail with Armour Plating, Flushing, 1858', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.243934
(accessed 26 December 2024 22:23:30).