Object data
wood and brass
height 16.1 cm × width 27 cm × depth 10.2 cm × calibre 17 mm × weight 3 kg
anonymous
Model of a 12-Pounder Carronade on a Slide
? Rotterdam, 1800
Inscriptions
- inscription, on the barrel: 12 lbDR MODEL / EEN SESDE / GEDEELTE VAN / DE WAARE / GROOTE
- monogram, on the barrel: Am 1800 M
Conservation
- Ab Hoving, August 2011: woodworm treatment
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-765
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model of a carronade on carriage and slide.
The carronade is 19.7 cm long and has a 17 mm calibre. Written inscriptions are engraved on the barrel, along with crossed anchors and palm branches. It has a vent patch, a sight on the second reinforcement and one front sight, a breech ring and an elevating screw through the button. The carriage, with brass fittings and rings, is slightly trapezoidal in plan, with the fore end and rear rounded off. To the rear, a traversing plate and a slot for the elevating screw is indicated, to the front, the lugs and lug bolt. The pintle is missing. The slide is a wooden frame, rounded off at the front, with a groove for the pintle and partly sheathed with brass and resting with the fighting bolt in a chock. A little way back, a brass plate for securing the slide lengthwise against the ship’s side is positioned underneath. The transom at the back is broader than the frame and has two brass rollers, their axes radial to the fighting bolt. In the middle, the slide in reinforced with a cross-beam.
This model belongs to a series of models with the same type of inscription. The monogram on the barrel refers to the Admiralty of Rotterdam (Maze), which, however, no longer existed in 1800.
As with models NG-MC-769 and NG-MC-770, there are problems with the scale: the calibre of the model does not correspond to the 12-pounder calibre of that time at a scale of 1:6.
Scale (on model) 1:6.
Literature
Exercitien en manoeuvres met het geschut aan boord zijner Keizerlijke en Koninklijke Majesteits schepen, Amsterdam [c. 1806-08]; L. van der Muelen, Handleiding in de artillerie. Bestemd tot het geven van onderwijs, op het kadetten instituut der Marine van zijn Majesteit den koning van Holland, Rotterdam 1807; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 765; J.P. Puype, ‘The Introduction of the Carronade into the Dutch Naval Service in the Late 18th Century’, in R.D. Smith (ed.), British Naval Armaments, s.l. 1981, pp. 29-39 (Royal Armoury’s Conference Proceedings, vol. 1)
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a 12-Pounder Carronade on a Slide, Rotterdam, 1800', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244579
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