Object data
wood and brass
length 36.6 cm × diameter 3.2 cm
anonymous
Model of Part of a Made Topmast
? Netherlands, United Kingdom, 1821
Inscriptions
- inscription, on a rectangular paper label: ZAMENSTELLING / der / Stengen voor Linieschepen / B
- label, centre: 158 former inventory label
Conservation
- Ab Hoving, May 1995: woodworm treatment
- Restauratieatelier Scheepsmodellen, 1999: restored
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-158
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Construction model of the lower part of a round topmast. The spar has a central spindle and four side pieces, joined together with nuts and bundled with hoops. The heeling is square and has a hole for the fid. A sheave for the top rope is placed diagonally through the heeling, somewhat lower at right angles to the sheave a notch for the preventer top rope is placed.
In 1822 it was decided that the traditional Dutch method of reeving the top ropes would be maintained. The British composition method for topmasts had already been introduced to the Netherlands,1 but the resolution issued by the Department of the Navy, however, refers to spars consisting of two parts, not five.2
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 158
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of Part of a Made Topmast, Netherlands, 1821', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.243970
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