Object data
wood, iron, brass, rope and paint
height c. 37.5 cm × width c. 152 cm × depth c. 123 cm × calibre 44 mm
Rijkswerf Vlissingen
Model of an 80-Pounder Shell Pivot Gun on a Ship Deck
Flushing, 1839
Conservation
- Ab Hoving, April 2010: metal cleaned; loose parts fixed; missing parts reconstructed; revarnished
Provenance
...; Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, February 1839;1 transferred to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-804
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model of an 80-pounder shell gun on a pivot and slide, painted black, mounted on a base representing the after deck of a paddle steamer.
The wooden barrel is 55 cm long, has a 44 mm calibre and fittings for sights at the muzzle and the second reinforcement. Above the button, there is a vent patch for a lock, the button is also the breeching ring. The upper carriage, narrowing slightly towards the front, has two cheeks with three steps, the upper parts with the trunnion boxes made of solid brass. The cheeks are connected by an inclined transom, a cross-beam in the middle and the axletrees. The stool bed lies on the hind axletree and the middle cross-beam. The axletrees do not have trucks but slide on tracks. Directly in front of the cheeks two trucks are positioned, which only support the carriage when it is jacked up with a lever on the two small trucks aft. The hind axletrees have braces gripping around a rim on the ledges of the slide, securing the upper carriage to the slide, and which, when screwed tight, serve as a friction brake. The slide consists of outer ledges on which the upper carriage moves, and a middle ledge with a slot for the pintle of the upper carriage and tracks for the trucks of the jack. The ledges are connected by three cross-beams, all with rollers for the tracks underneath. The base represents the after deck of a paddle steamer with an elliptical stern, of which the gunwale can be lowered entirely. The slide turns on the main circle of tracks with a pintle in the middle, and can also turn on two points in the sides.
On 17 April 1837 the Navy dockyard in Flushing received the order for this model,2 which was sent to the Navy Model Room on 12 February 1839.3 Its quality very much pleased the Director General.
Scale (according to Obreen)4 1:5.
Literature
L.K. Turk, Gegevens en tekeningen van geschut en munitie, verstrekt op verschillende schepen en sloepen van de Koninklijke Marine, s.l. [c. 1848], manuscript in NSM, inv. no. A.0356(0006), p. 75; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 804; W.G.M.H. Canisius, ‘De ontwikkeling van scheepsgeschut bij de Nederlandse marine in 1780-1880’, Erfgoed van Industrie en Techniek 2 (1993), no. 2, pp. 43-62, no. 3, pp. 80-87, p. 58
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Vlissingen, Model of an 80-Pounder Shell Pivot Gun on a Ship Deck, Flushing, 1839', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244618
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