Object data
wood, brass, rope and textile
height 38.5 cm (rigged) × length 44.3 cm × width 10.8 cm
Rijkswerf Vlissingen
Model of an Officers' Launch
Flushing, 1835
Inscriptions
- inscription, on the stand: OFFICIERS SLOEP VAN 10 RIEMEN - 1/20e der WARE GROOTTE
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-684
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, five 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. The model has ten oars, a gangway and two boat hooks.
The model represents an 8.5-metre-long officers’ launch, constructed according to the regulations of the Dutch Navy of 1828.1
Scale (on model) 1:20.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 684
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Vlissingen, Model of an Officers' 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.244499
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