Object data
wood, iron, textile, leather, rope, cork and straw
height 120 cm × width 195 cm × depth 125 cm
H.W. Burman
Life Buoy
Flemington (Australia), 1870 - 1885
Inscriptions
- inscription, on the corner: KANGAROO / LIFE / BUOY
- inscription, opposite: H.W. BURMAN / Pitt. St. Flemington / MELBourne
Conservation
- H. Visman, June 2000: previous restoration reversed; new linen as support for 'floaters' added
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1889
Object number: NG-MC-1889-22
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Large oval life buoy, made of tarpaulin and filled with a wooden structure and cork and straw. Two cables run parallel between the two extremes of the oval, and on them two wooden planks to which a large net has been attached. The net is closed with a conical float at the bottom, which points downwards.
A person can stand in the net with his or her feet on the flat surface of the conical float. H.W. Burman named his invention a ‘Kangaroo Life Buoy’.
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'H.W. Burman, Life Buoy, Flemington (Australia), 1870 - 1885', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245258
(accessed 24 November 2024 08:22:35).