Object data
wood, iron and brass
height 16.6 cm × width 34.9 cm × depth 22 cm × height 25 cm
width 46.5 cm × depth 29 cm
Rijkswerf Amsterdam
Model of the Upper Carriage of a 1-Pounder Gun
Amsterdam, 1864
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1155
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model of the upper carriage of a 1-pounder gun, for use on a slide in ship’s boats.
The body is a solid wooden rectangle with the short sides rounded off, and an eyebolt at each corner. The cheeks are replaced by iron supports for the trunnions, which are connected with a bolt. The trunnion boxes are closed with pegs. Between the supports is the pintle, and at the rear, an elevating screw is placed.
The Navy dockyard in Amsterdam received an order for a model of a brass 1-pounder on a slide at a scale of 1:2 on 22 January 1864,1 and it was added to the Navy Model Room on the 4th of April that the same year.2 The scale of 1:5 mentioned in the original inventory is incorrect. The date points to a brass (bronze) rifled 1-pounder (5 cm) muzzle-loader.
Scale (according to archives) 1:2.
Literature
J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1155
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Amsterdam, Model of the Upper Carriage of a 1-Pounder Gun, Amsterdam, 1864', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244968
(accessed 14 November 2024 07:34:10).