Object data
wood
total: length 38.5 cm
anchor stock: width 9.2 cm
span 20.5 cm
G. de Bruijn
Model of an Anchor
Netherlands, Marseille, c. 1859
Provenance
...; donated by Mr G. De Bruijn to the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, 1867;1 transferred to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1203
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Wooden model of a ‘securitas’ anchor.
This anchor has no regular stock, having instead a short stock set perpendicular to the arms, and the flukes are set in the same plane as the arms. Arms and stock turn in the forked end of the shank, the stock forces the flukes into the ground. The stock can be set in the right position by means of a rope attached to a shackle at the crown, the rope also serving to raise the anchor. The top of the shank has a shackle.
The model was presented by sea pilot G. de Bruijn to the Department of the Navy in 1867. The ‘securitas’ anchor was an improved version of Hawkins’ patent anchor and was patented by Mr L.J. Vonk in The Hague in 1853. The shape of the anchor stock has changed. It proved satisfactory as a daytime anchor on trials with the Wassenaer, but would not hold well in mud, as it transpired later on board Zoutman in Japan. It was also difficult to cat and to fish.
Scale (estimate) 1:5
Literature
N. van der Werf, ‘Rapport en beschrijving van het anker Securitas’, Verhandelingen en berigten betrekkelijk het zeewezen (1859), no. 1, pp. 72-80; J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1203; G. Doorman, Het Nederlandsch octrooiwezen en de techniek der 19de eeuw, The Hague 1947, p. 335, no. 2185
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'G. de Bruijn, Model of an Anchor, Netherlands, c. 1859', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245017
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