anonymous
Netherlands, 1858 - 1859
cast iron
height 7 cm (approx.) × width 22 cm × depth 16 cm × height 7.5 cm × width 7.5 cm × depth 7 cm × height 2 cm × width 7.6 cm × depth 4.5 cm × height 1.8 cm × width 3.8 cm × depth 3.2 cm × height 4.5 cm × diameter 9 cm
total: weight 8.1 kg
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1058
Copyright: Public domain
One large, one medium, one circular and two small fragments of a 30-pounder gun. The circular piece is smooth all around. It could be part of a trunnion. All other fragments have one smooth side. The large piece is probably part of the breech.
The fragments come from a gun that burst on board Pro Patria in 1859, killing seven crew members.
E.H. von Baumhauer, ‘Scheikundig onderzoek van het ijzer van het aan boord der Pro Patria gesprongen kanon’, Verslagen en mededeelingen der Koninklijke Academie van Wetenschappen. Afdeeling Natuurkunde 10 (1860), pp. 167-80.; J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1058; J.J. Backer Dircks, De Nederlandsche zeemacht in haar verschillende tijdperken geschetst, 2 vols., The Hague 1890, vol. 2, pp. 635, 640, 643; Catalogus Rijksmuseum Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum, coll. cat. Amsterdam 1943, p. 147
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Five Fragments of a Burst Gun, Netherlands, 1858 - 1859', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20054085
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