Object data
wood and brass
model: height 47.7 cm × length 141.5 cm × width 46.5 cm
packaging capsule: height 50.5 cm × width 147 cm × depth 51 cm
anonymous
Model of a Marker Waterschip
Netherlands, 1800 - 1858
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-514
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Wooden frame model of the hull of a single-masted vessel, mounted on a stand.
The deck and planking are partly left open in order to reveal the construction. It is a carvel-built double-ender with a high vertical stem and a straight, falling sternpost. At the stern a broad rudder with a wooden hand tiller is indicated. The model has one deck and a clinker-built deckhouse, which covers a cabin and the well. The deckhouse has the longitudinally curved shape typical for ships of this type, and has a small hole in the roof for a chimney. Forward, against the deckhouse, a fitted windlass is specified; another one is positioned in the bow, as well as one in the stern and three small ones on the afterdeck. The sheer rises steeply towards the bow. The hull is round with a prominent keel and part of the planking is pierced for the well. The afterdeck has a deck horse for the main sheet and the foredeck has a mast hole. The model has four chains on either side.
The ‘Marker waterschip’ was originally a fishing vessel with a well or fish box in which the catch was kept alive. The hull is much like that of the botter, but without leeboards. It fished with trawl nets and could sail very fastly. From the late seventeenth century onwards these ‘waterschepen’ were mostly used to tow ships in camels over the shallow Pampus.
Literature
P. le Comte, Afbeeldingen van schepen en vaartuigen in verschillende bewegingen, Amsterdam 1831, pl. 35; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 514; E.W. Petrejus, Oude zeilschepen en hun modellen, Bussum 1971, pp. 116-20; A.J. Hoving, ‘Ship Camels and Waterships’, Model Shipwright 76 (1991), pp. 32-36; R. Daalder and E. Spits, Schepen van de Gouden Eeuw, Zutphen 2005, pp. 43-50
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Marker Waterschip, Netherlands, 1800 - 1858', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244327
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