Object data
wood, brass, iron, rope and textile
height 90 cm × length 76 cm × width 17.1 cm
Rijkswerf Hellevoetsluis
Model of a Pilot Vessel
Hellevoetsluis, 1836
Inscriptions
- inscription, on the mainsail: HELLEVOETSLUIS.7
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-678
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Rigged block model of a single-masted ship with sails, mounted on a stand.
The model has one deck, a rounded bow and stern, and the sternpost is raked. At the stern a straight rudder is fitted with a decorated rudder head and a wooden tiller and a kind of sweep on the gunwale. The sheer rises slightly towards both ends, the model has one wale. The hull is S-bottomed. The model is fitted with two anchors, a windlass, two water casks, a chimney for the galley, a deck light, a small deckhouse, two oars, two pumps, one companionway and two boathooks. It has a gaff rig with sails, with a bowsprit to port, a foresail with deck horse, a gaff topsail, a blue flag and the Dutch tricolour.
The model was made from drawings in 1835.1 It is unknown whether the ship was ever built.
Scale (according to Obreen)2 1:30.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 678
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Hellevoetsluis, Model of a Pilot Vessel, Hellevoetsluis, 1836', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244493
(accessed 23 November 2024 00:19:28).