Object data
wood, brass, rope and textile
height 52.8 cm (rigged) × length 39 cm × width 11.5 cm
Rijkswerf Vlissingen
Model of a Captain's Launch
Flushing, 1835
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-683
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Rigged wooden frame model of a launch with sails, mounted on a stand.
Clinker-built, double-banked launch with a round bottom and a square stern (flat with a skeg). The model has a small foredeck, seven thwarts with stretchers and an open cockpit with side-benches. The frames are made out of three parts. At the stern a basic rudder with a cranked brass tiller is indicated. The rigging consists of a main and foresail, both dipping lugsails. Three oars have been preserved, a gangway and two boat hooks.
The model represents a 10.2-metre-long captain’s launch, constructed according to the regulations of the Dutch Navy of 1828.1
Scale 1:20.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 683
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Vlissingen, Model of a Captain's Launch, Flushing, 1835', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244498
(accessed 23 November 2024 12:42:25).