Object data
wood, brass and mica
model: height 20.5 cm (not rigged) × length 65 cm × width 23.5 cm
packaging capsule: height 24.5 cm × width 68.5 cm × depth 30.5 cm
Rijkswerf Rotterdam (attributed to)
Model of a Gaff-Rigged Gunboat
Rotterdam, c. 1835
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1025
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Frame model with spars of a single-masted, flat-bottomed gunboat.
The decks can be removed to expose the panelling inside. Round bow and stern, one gun port in the bow, two in the stern and two in the sides. The forward gun emplacement has a slide on a pivot. The deck is further detailed with a capstan, a chimney for the galley, hatches, a deck light and a forked stanchion. It has hammock netting forward. Below decks the vessel is completely panelled and has a brass galley. At the stern a broad rudder with a wooden tiller on deck is indicated. The sheer rises slightly fore and aft. The model has one wale and leeboards. It has spars for a single-masted gaff rig: mast, topmast, boom and gaff, removable bowsprit. The yards are missing.
This model is constructed according to the pattern of the large gaff-rigged gunboats of 1835, 18 metres long, but does not carry the mortar stipulated in the regulations. These vessels had a 36-pounder gun in the bow and two 36-pounder carronades in the stern. The model is very similar to model number 673 (NG-MC-673).
Scale (derived) 1:30.
Literature
P. le Comte, Afbeeldingen van schepen en vaartuigen in verschillende bewegingen, Amsterdam 1831, p. 4; R.F. Cairo, ‘Notes on Dutch Gaff Gunboats: A Provisional Report’, Nautical Research Journal 16 (1968), no. 1, pp. 3-16; J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1025; A.J. Hoving, Message in a Model: Stories from the Navy Model Room of the Rijksmuseum, Florence, OR 2013, pp. 182-84
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'attributed to Rijkswerf Rotterdam, Model of a Gaff-Rigged Gunboat, Rotterdam, c. 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.244840
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