Object data
wood, brass, lead, mica and rope
height 64 cm (superimposed) × width 125 cm × depth 35.5 cm
's Lands Werf Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1806 - 1809
wood, brass, lead, mica and rope
height 64 cm (superimposed) × width 125 cm × depth 35.5 cm
...; Kadetteninstituut (Naval Institute) Fijenoord, Rotterdam, 1809;1 Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague; transferred to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-505
Copyright: Public domain
Wooden frame model of a ship’s hull, bisected along the longitudinal axis, one half placed over the other one, mounted on a base.
The starboard side is fully lined and panelled inside, while the port side only has lining and planking, revealing the construction of the decks. Seventy-four gun ports are indicated in three tiers. The model has an orlop, lower deck, main deck, closed forecastle and quarterdeck with gangways, and a poop. The latter is only indicated by joints for the beams. The beakhead has not been specified, only the knee of the head. The stern has a round tuck and a hollow counter with two gun ports and a two-storey taffrail. The quarter galleries have been left off. The sheer is almost flat, two wales and a sheer rail are indicated. The hull is S-bottomed.
This model was made by or under the supervision of Pieter Schuijt Jr (active 1796-1841) in Amsterdam from 1806 to 1809, as an instruction model for the Naval Institute at Fijenoord (Rotterdam), to where it was shipped in 1809. 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 in the defence of Zeeland during the British attack. In 1814 Chattam was a store ship in Flushing and was sacked by soldiers. It was sold for breaking up in 1823.2
Scale (derived) 1:55.
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 505; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 2
J. van der Vliet, 2016, ''s Lands Werf Amsterdam, Model of a 90-Gun Ship, Amsterdam, 1806 - 1809', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244318
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