Object data
wood and brass
height 23.3 cm × width 8 cm × depth 1.8 cm
Speleveld
Model of a Rudder that Can Be Jacked-Up
Flushing, ? Flushing, c. 1782 - c. 1803
Inscriptions
- label, bottom: 214 former inventory label
Provenance
...; donated by Mr D. Speleveld to the Raad voor de Marine (Navy Council of the Batavian Republic), 1803;1 Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague; transferred to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-214
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Wooden demonstration model of a square-headed rudder and sternpost.
The rudder has one hole for the tiller and five rudder irons. The hole in the uppermost gudgeon is closed and the pintle is replaced by a bolt, with which the rudder can be jacked-up.2
The ‘Haarlemsche Maetschappij’, of which Mr D. Speleveld was a delegate at the time, offered a gold medal for this invention to the captain of a pink lying in Rotterdam in either 1782 or 1783. Later, in 1803, Speleveld, by then a Commissioner in Flushing of the revolutionary Batavian government, remembered this occasion and reported it to Henricus van Royen, member of the Navy Council of the Batavian Republic, and presented this model to him.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 214; A.A. Lemmers, Het marinemodellenkamerprojekt, coll. cat. Amsterdam (Rijksmuseum) 1986
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Speleveld, Model of a Rudder that Can Be Jacked-Up, Flushing, c. 1782 - c. 1803', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244026
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