Object data
wood and brass
height 40 cm × diameter 26.5 cm
Rijkswerf Willemsoord
Model of an Anchor Buoy
Den Helder, 1833
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-32
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Hollowed out block model of an anchor buoy for a mooring anchor.
The model has an onion-shaped body with its point facing downwards and a flat top; it is covered with hoops, across which the outer frames are set. Two main frames cross each other on the flat top. Shackles are fitted to both the top and bottom. The interior, which has two levels, can be inspected through a small manhole.
Obreen calls this model a ‘corps mort’.1 Buoys of this kind were used for the mooring anchors in the harbour of Nieuwediep (now Den Helder).2
Scale (derived) 1:10.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 32
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Willemsoord, Model of an Anchor Buoy, Den Helder, 1833', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.242757
(accessed 20 September 2024 18:30:36).