Object data
wood, brass, iron and rope
model: height 92.5 cm × width 60 cm × depth 21 cm
packaging capsule: height 96 cm × width 63.5 cm × depth 28 cm
Koninklijke Fabriek P. van Vlissingen & Dudok van Heel
Model of a Lifting Screw
Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1853
Inscriptions
- label, on the frame: 561 former inventory label
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-561
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Wooden model of the well of a lifting screw between sternpost and rudder post, with part of the keel.
In the well, a common two-blade propeller is hung in a metal frame, which can be lifted with a rope running over a sheave in the frame and one at the top of the well of the screw. The propeller shaft must be pulled back to disengage the screw. The ascent is controlled by vertical rails against sternpost and rudder post with teeth for the ratchets of the screw frame, which prevent the frame from falling back; by pulling two other ropes the ratchets can be released, thus lowering the screw. Against the rails a locking mechanism is fitted to keep the frame in either position. The prop that prevents the screw from turning when it is lifted, is missing.
This model, an improvement of the design of the lifting screw for Medusa, was offered to the Dutch Navy by the Koninklijke Fabriek P. van Vlissingen & Dudok van Heel in 1856.1 The 19-gun sloop of war Medusa, 50.44 metres long, was built in Amsterdam from 1852 to 1854 by August Elize Tromp (1801-1871). It was also classed as a 26-gun sloop of war with auxiliary steam propulsion. Medusa became famous because of its part in the actions in the Strait of Shimonoseki, Japan, in 1863 and 1864. The ship was decommissioned in the Dutch East Indies in 1866.2
Scale (derived) 1:10.
Literature
H. Labrousse, ‘Over de schroefkokers en beantwoording van vragen daaromtrent gedaan’, Verhandelingen en berigten betrekkelijk het zeewezen (1850), pp. 670; H. Kemper, Handleiding tot de kennis van het stoomwezen bij de Marine, s.l. 1853, pp. 124 ff.; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 561; J. Bourne, A Treatise on the Steam-Engine in its Various Applications to Mines, Mills, Steam Navigation, Railways, and Agriculture, London 1861 (5th ed.), pp. 388 ff.; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 85; A.A. Lemmers, Techniek op schaal. Modellen en het technologiebeleid van de Marine 1725-1885, Amsterdam 1996, pp. 261, 263; A.J. Hoving, ‘Screw Propulsion’, Model Shipwright 80 (1992), pp. 58-62; J.M. Dirkzwager, ‘De Nederlandse marine als pionier in de technische ontwikkeling. Schroefvoortstuwing in het tweede en derde kwart van de negentiende eeuw’, Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 12 (1993), no. 1, pp. 13-26, pp. 29-31; A.J. Hoving, Message in a Model: Stories from the Navy Model Room of the Rijksmuseum, Florence, OR 2013, pp. 196-99; J. Holtrop et al., ‘Schroefvoortstuwing. Een 19e eeuwse technische uitdaging’, Scheepshistorie 17 (2014), pp. 48-71
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Koninklijke Fabriek P. van Vlissingen & Dudok van Heel, Model of a Lifting Screw, Amsterdam, 1853', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244375
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