Object data
copper
length 28.5 cm × diameter 17 cm
Petrus van der Loo
Model of a Buoy
? The Hague, Netherlands, 1842
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-841
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Copper test model of an iron buoy.
The buoy is made of plates, bolted together. It has a conical body with a pointed lower end and a round top; below the waterline, it has a vertical keel offset to one side. The eye bolt at the lower end is broken.
Anthony Cornelis Twent, inspector general for pilotage at the time, ordered this model to help him establish the floating ability of his design.1
Scale (according to archives) 1:10.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 841
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Petrus van der Loo, Model of a Buoy, The Hague, 1842', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244655
(accessed 10 November 2024 12:41:36).