Object data
iron
total: length 38.2 cm
anchor stock: width 35.7 cm
span 23.4 cm
anonymous
Model of an Anchor
Netherlands, ? United Kingdom, 1845
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-615
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model of a stocked Porter’s anchor.
The arms turn on an axle in the forked end of the shank. The bend in the arms is more pronounced than usual and the flukes have a horn on the outside.1 The anchor stock can slip through the hole in the shank and be set parallel to it. There is a shackle at the end of the shank, a chain at the crown and a double link around the shank.
Scale unknown.
Literature
British Patent 1838, no. 7774 ; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 615; J.C. Pilaar, Handleiding tot de kennis van het tuig, de masten, zeilen, enz. van het schip, Amsterdam 1858 (3rd ed. rev. by G.P.J. Mossel), p. 391, fig. 129
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of an Anchor, Netherlands, 1845', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244430
(accessed 14 November 2024 17:00:40).