Object data
wood and brass
height 57 cm × length 0.9 cm × width 0.9 cm
anonymous
Model of a Main Topgallant Mast
Netherlands, c. 1850
Inscriptions
- inscription, on the square heeling: F
- label, centre: 157 former inventory label
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-157
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Construction model of a round topgallant mast ending in a pole head, with a square heeling with a hole for the fid, one sheave near the heeling, one in the octagonal hounds and one at the top.
This model represents the main topgallant mast of Piet Hein, a ship of the line laid down in 1833, taken apart and re-assembled as the first Dutch screw steam frigate Admiraal van Wassenaer,1 59.62 metres long, built by August Elize Tromp (1801-1871) in Amsterdam from 1853 to 1856.2 Together with a number of other models of spars an entire mainmast can be assembled.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 157; J. Wentholt, Memoriaal reis Admiraal van Wassenaer, s.l. 1869, manuscript in HSM, inv. no. S.2277(01); A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 55
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Main Topgallant Mast, Netherlands, c. 1850', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.243969
(accessed 27 December 2024 22:58:57).