Object data
wood, brass, bronze, lead, rope, textile and leather
height 120 cm × length 200 cm × width 65.5 cm
Willem van Tongerloo, Adrianus Kollaard
Model of a 44-Gun Frigate
Rijkswerf (Hellevoetsluis), Rijkswerf (Hellevoetsluis), Rijkswerf (Hellevoetsluis), Rijkswerf (Hellevoetsluis), Rijkswerf (Hellevoetsluis), Rijkswerf (Hellevoetsluis), 1836 - 1842
Inscriptions
- inscription, on the taffrail: H V S 1842 IJSSEL
- inscription, on a separate note: Dit Model Schip Is Gemaakt Genaamd Den IJssel / Door Willem Tongerloo Huistimmerman / en Adrianus Kollaard Smit / en op Getuigt Door A Tongerlo Verwersknegt / Onder [...] Van Den O Constructeur / Den Heer Hoetink / HVSluis Den 24 February 1842
Conservation
- Ab Hoving, April 2008: minor repairs
Provenance
...; Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, 1842;1 transferred to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-665
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Rigged wooden waterline block model of a three-masted ship with furled sails.
The model has twenty-eight guns on the gun deck and sixteen carronades on the upper deck. The upper deck has a grating deck. The beakhead has four seats of ease, the figurehead is missing. The elliptical stern has single-storey quarter galleries. The model has a straight, square-headed rudder, with a steering wheel fitted before the mizzen on the upper deck. The sheer is flat, the model has one wale and a sheer rail. The model is fitted with two anchors, four halliard-tubs, one life buoy, two davits, a deckhouse, seven pieces of spare timber, a large number of round shot and hammock nettings, three covered launches and one open launch with a slide for a gun, a fish davit and one oar. All the ironwork is executed in detail. The model has a very detailed three-masted rig with furled sails. All the masts have trysail masts.
This model of a 44-gun frigate was ordered in 1836 together with a model of a ship’s galley for that frigate (NG-MC-575).2 All the makers were promoted or rewarded while the assistants were mentioned for their prominent role in the realisation of the model.3 This model differs in some details from another model of IJssel in the collection (NG-MC-30). IJssel, 44 guns and 46.21 metres long, was launched in Rotterdam in 1840. It was renamed Prins Frederik der Nederlanden in 1844, converted to a floating battery in 1860 and again renamed Salamander before being decommissioned in 1893 and broken up in 1903.4
Scale (according to Obreen)5 1:40.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 665; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 11; F.J.G. van Emden and W. Brandt, Kleurig memoriaal van de Hollanders op Oud-Java, Amsterdam 1964, p. 152; A. van Dijk, Voor Pampus. De ontwikkeling van de scheepsbouw bij de Koninklijke Marine omstreeks 1860, Amsterdam/The Hague 1987 (Bijdragen tot de Nederlandse Marinegeschiedenis, vol. 4), p. 76; A.J. Hoving, Message in a Model: Stories from the Navy Model Room of the Rijksmuseum, Florence, OR 2013, pp. 190-93
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Willem van Tongerloo and Adrianus Kollaard, Model of a 44-Gun Frigate, Rijkswerf (Hellevoetsluis), 1836 - 1842', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244481
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