Model of a 40-Gun Dutch East Indiaman

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Polychromed and rigged wooden frame model of a three-masted ship, mounted on a stand.

Forty-six gun ports are indicated in three tiers. The model has four levels: lower deck, main deck, beakhead platform and forecastle and quarterdeck, and a poop. On the quarterdeck an awning with a table and three benches are positioned. The figurehead is of a lion. A V-shaped frame has been added to the beakhead, on which three supplementary catheads have been mounted, two with an anchor release gear of the Brunton type and one of the Van Houten type. The stern has a round tuck with one gun port and a hollow counter with four gun ports. The taffrail has two storeys and is ornamented with carvings of foliage and pilasters. The two-storey quarter galleries are decorated with carvings of foliage and a mythological beast. Below the stern a straight, square-headed rudder is indicated, a sweep is fitted on the lower deck and a steering wheel on the quarterdeck below the poop. The model has two anchors, one capstan, a binnacle, a ship’s bell and two stern lanterns. The sheer rises towards the stern, the model has two wales and one sheer rail. The hull is round. The main and mizzen channels are continuous.

The ship is rigged on three masts without sails and has several nineteenth-century alterations: the foremast is replaced by a jury mast, the mast caps were replaced (the original caps are now model NG-MC-174), two lightning conductors (NG-MC-601) as designed by Jochem Pietersz Asmus (1755-1837) have been added, one from stem to stern over the tops of the bowsprit, masts and gaff, the other over the mainmast and the tips of its yards; and the previously mentioned two, different types of anchor release gear as proposed by Thomas Brunton (NG-MC-633) and W. van Houten (NG-MC-634). All of which did not exist on ships from the 1780s.

Scale unknown.