Object data
wood and brass
height 22.5 cm × width 37 cm × depth 27.8 cm × calibre 14 mm
anonymous
Model of a 24-Pounder Breech-Loading Gun
Netherlands, Netherlands, 1829
Inscriptions
- label, on the part of the ship: 783 former inventory label
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-783
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Wooden model of a 24-pounder breech-loading gun on part of a ship.
The gun is 30.5 cm long, its calibre is 14 mm. The button is replaced by a brass brace, probably for handling the breech block. The breech can be opened by removing a transverse wedge that runs through it, after which the breech block, consisting of the brace with the bottom of the chamber, can be pulled out of the breech. Only one cheek of the carriage remains. The part of the ship is a schematic representation of the deck and the ship’s side, with a round gun port of which the exterior diameter is larger than that of the interior.
Obreen describes this model as a 12-pounder gun,1 but the measurements strongly suggest a 24-pounder. F.H. Ampt proposed his design for a breech loading gun on 2 June 1829. The design had the advantage of requiring only a small round gun port, as demonstrated by this model. His designs were turned down by the artillery specialists, amongst them W.H. Sesseler.
Scale (estimate) 1:10.
Literature
C. Verveer, ‘Voorstel van een scheepskanon, waar de lading door den kulas wordt ingebragt. Met eene plaat’, Tijdschrift toegewijd aan het zeewezen 1 (1831), pp. 258-75 and Tijdschrift toegewijd aan het zeewezen 2 (1832), pp. 120-34; ‘Beschrijving van een nieuw scheepskanon’, Tijdschrift toegewijd aan het zeewezen 2 (1832), pp. 217-19; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 783; J. Schmoelzl (trans. A.G. Kempers), Nieuwere wapenleer. Handleiding tot de kennis en beoefening der vuurwapens van der tegenwoordige tijd, 2 vols., The Hague 1858-59 (2nd ed.), vol. 2, pp. 24 ff.
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a 24-Pounder Breech-Loading Gun, Netherlands, 1829', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244597
(accessed 23 November 2024 13:03:34).