Object data
wood and paint
height 20.4 cm × width 44.8 cm × depth 22.7 cm
Rijkswerf Vlissingen
Model of a Section of an Armoured Turret
Flushing, Flushing, 1862
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1141
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Wooden construction model of a hemispherical turret, painted blue, mounted on a rectangular base.
The wall has an outer layer of armour consisting of vertical segments (the model shows thirteen out of a total of twenty-six) and an inner layer of horizontal plates. There are six loopholes at three-quarter height, for which the inner plate has been thickened. The segments do not close at the top, but leave a circular opening.
This design for a hemispherical turret for riflemen was made by Lambertinus Katharinus Turk (1811-1873) for the ironclad steam battery De Ruyter in 1862. At full scale the walls would have been 114 mm thick. The design was accepted at first, but later rejected when the difficulties concerning the fabrication of the curved plates became evident.
Scale (derived) 1:10.
Literature
J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1141; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 55
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Vlissingen, Model of a Section of an Armoured Turret, Flushing, 1862', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244954
(accessed 20 September 2024 22:31:15).