Object data
wood, straw, canvas and bladder
height 80 cm × width 42 cm × depth 42 cm
A. Scheerboom
Model of a Life Buoy
Netherlands, Netherlands, c. 1826
Inscriptions
- label: 851 former inventory label
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-851
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model of a hoop life buoy.
The buoy is a ring made of straw covered with a bladder and tarred canvas. An oval hoop is attached to the buoy vertically, so that a person can stand inside it, placing his or her feet in the bottom of the hoop. The buoy is incomplete: it should have a number of cords or light sticks with cork or another floating material at the end, which spread out in the water so that the buoy can be caught more easily by somebody in the water. Only two of the sticks remain.
At the top of the hoop a flag can be set, to ensure maximum visibility of the buoy while in the water. The buoy and other inventions by Scheerboom were successfully tested at Scheveningen on 10, 11 and 13 June 1826. Two of the heaviest people could easily be supported by it.
Scale (estimate) 1:2.
Literature
A. Scheerboom, A Brief Account of the Royal Patent Ship & Life Preservers Invented by A. Scheerboom and Co., London 1833, pp. 16-17, figs. VI-VII; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 851
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'A. Scheerboom, Model of a Life Buoy, Netherlands, c. 1826', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244665
(accessed 13 November 2024 04:57:45).