Object data
wood, brass and iron
height 3.7 cm × width 30.9 cm × depth 3.7 cm
anonymous
Model of an Anchor Release
Netherlands, Netherlands, 1826
Inscriptions
- label: 633 former inventory label
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-633
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model of a cathead with anchor release gear.
The cathead has two sheaves in the head, three thumb cleats on one side and a tripping gear on the other, consisting of a pair of jaws and a lever for releasing.
Although only one model of W. van Houten’s anchor release is mentioned in the archives,1 a similar cathead with anchor release gear by Van Houten was installed on the model of the East Indiaman Vergelijking (NG-MC-658).
Scale unknown.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 633
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of an Anchor Release, Netherlands, 1826', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244448
(accessed 24 November 2024 06:05:55).