Model of a 90-Gun Ship of the Line

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Rigged planked block model of a three-masted ship, mounted on a stand.

Seventy-six guns are indicated in three tiers. The model has decks on five levels: orlop, lower deck, main deck, closed forecastle and quarterdeck with deckhouse and gangways, and poop. The figurehead is a Roman soldier with lance and raised shield, the beakhead is decorated with carvings of trophies. The stern has a round tuck and a hollow counter with two gun ports. The two-storey taffrail has a sternwalk and is ornamented with carvings of foliage, corner figures and two portrait medallions (one of them of Cornelis de Witt). The two-storey quarter galleries are decorated with carvings of foliage and a writing figure on a trophy in an oval shield. Below the stern a straight, square-headed rudder and steering wheel is fitted on the quarterdeck. The model is fitted with four anchors, double riding bitts, two double capstans, a double brake pump and two Y-shaped chimneys for the galley. The sheer is almost flat. A broad wale, a double wale and two sheer rails are indicated. The hull is S-bottomed. The model has a three-masted rig without sails, the mizzen mast with lateen yard.

The model was presented to the Navy Model Room by Rear Admiral Hendrik Franco Tengbergen (1795-1876).² The 90-gun ship Chattam (Chatham), 195 feet long, was built by Pieter Glavimans Jansz (1768-1850) in Rotterdam from 1799 to 1800. In 1809 it was converted to a floating battery and used to repel the British attack on Zeeland. In 1814 it was a converted store ship in Flushing and was plundered by soldiers. Chattam was sold for breaking up in 1823.³

Scale (derived) 1:55.