Rijkswerf Vlissingen, Rijkswerf Willemsoord, Rijkswerf Hellevoetsluis
Flushing, Den Helder, Hellevoetsluis, 1861 - 1865
wood, iron, galvanised iron, rope, leather, linen and parchment
(A): height 28 cm × width 12.5 cm × depth c. 11 cm
(B): height 45 cm × width 20.5 cm × depth 21 cm
(C): height 63.5 cm × width 20 cm × depth 21 cm
(D): height 47 cm × width 14 cm × depth 13 cm × height 47 cm × width 14 cm × depth 10 cm
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1177
Copyright: Public domain
Three blocks and a luff tackle in accordance with the regulations of 1865.
The first block is a 16 cm double brail block with double metal strapping and with spliced metal seizing and an iron thimble. The second is a 26 cm double block with iron strapping with spliced metal seizing in leather lashing and an iron thimble; it has a parchment label with inscription. The third is a 26 cm double block with iron strapping in rope lashing and with rope seizing, an iron thimble and an iron hook. The luff tackle consists of a single and a double block, the standing part attached to the strap of the single block; both blocks have metal strapping with metal seizing without splicing, an iron thimble and a hook.
The 16 cm block was made at the Navy dockyard of Flushing, the 26 cm blocks at Willemsoord in Den Helder and the tackle at Hellevoetsluis. The tackle was subsequently tested with a load of 500 Dutch pounds, raised 1 metre and released slowly by snubbing the tackle. The original inventory mentions another 16 cm double block,1 which has not been found.
Scale 1:1.
J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1177
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Vlissingen and Rijkswerf Willemsoord and Rijkswerf Hellevoetsluis, Three Blocks and a Luff Tackle, Flushing, Den Helder, Hellevoetsluis, 1861 - 1865', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244990
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