Object data
wood, brass and iron
height 40.8 cm × width 46.7 cm × depth 6 cm
A. Sol (possibly)
Model of a Rudder and Screw
Flushing, Flushing, 1850 - 1858
Inscriptions
- label, on the rifle: 560 former inventory label
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-560
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Wooden model of a round-headed rudder and screw, fixed to the sternpost with part of the keel.
The rudder’s blade also acts as the frame for the common two-blade propeller, which consequently turns along with the rudder. The propeller shaft has a universal joint between sternpost and rudder, which enables the motion of the shaft to be transmitted to the screw irrespective of the position of the rudder. The shaft is driven by means of a handle.
In the archives the steam engineer Sol from Flushing is only mentioned in connection to the model of a press pump.1
Scale unknown.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 560; A.J. Hoving, ‘Screw Propulsion’, Model Shipwright 80 (1992), pp. 58-62; A.J. Hoving, Message in a Model: Stories from the Navy Model Room of the Rijksmuseum, Florence, OR 2013, pp. 196-97
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'possibly A. Sol, Model of a Rudder and Screw, Flushing, 1850 - 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.244374
(accessed 23 November 2024 09:44:09).