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anonymous

Model of a Made Mast

? Netherlands, Port Mahon, 1819

Object data

wood and brass

height 102.5 cm × length 4.6 cm × width 4.3 cm

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-138-2

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

Construction model of a round mast with a square head, hounds with bibbs, furring, rubbing paunch and side fishes.

The mast itself consists of an octagonal spindle and eight side fishes. The head is made of the side fishes. The parts are held together with mast hoops. A number of short planks encircle the mast, forming a furring to the front (missing) and a flat back. The side fishes consist of two long timbers and also form the back of the bibbs; the bibbs are attached to these with brass fittings. A rubbing paunch is set to the front of the mast and continues underneath the furring.

This model represents the improved version of J. Fennenias's design of the mainmast1 of the 74-gun ship of the line Willem de Eerste (Pieter van Zwijndregt Paulusz (1711-1790), Rotterdam, 1782-85, renamed Brutus in 1795 and Braband in 1806, broken up in 1820).2 The ship’s original mainmast, represented by model NG-MC-138-1, was declared unfit in 1819 and replaced in Port Mahon with a mast as represented by this model.3 The main difference between the two is that the spindle is thinner and the side fishes are heavier and compose the head. In 1822, Fennenias’s design was proposed as the new standard for all large vessels of the Dutch Navy.4

Literature

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 138; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 2; A.A. Lemmers, Techniek op schaal. Modellen en het technologiebeleid van de Marine 1725-1885, Amsterdam 1996, pp. 164-65

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Made Mast, Netherlands, 1819', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.243950

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