Model of a Careening Wharf

...; collection Mr J. Schouten, Dordrecht; purchased by the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, 1861;¹¹A. Lemmers (ed.), Maritime Technology from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam: Multimedia Catalogue of the Dutch Navy Model Collection 1698-1889, coll. cat. Amsterdam (Rijksmuseum) 1995, no. MC-1091. transferred to the museum, 1883

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-1091

Wooden construction model of a careening wharf, showing its pile foundations.

The model is built in a trapezoidal box, of which the short front represents the harbour wall. In three trenches just behind the wall the pulley blocks for careening can be attached. At the rear seven capstans with bitts are erected.

The model was bought by the Department of the Navy, together with model numbers NG-MC-1087 and NG-MC-1090, from the collection of J. Schouten in Dordrecht in 1861. No other historical details about this model are known. The scale is in Amsterdam feet.

Scale (on model) 1:53.4.

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1091

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Careening Wharf, Netherlands, c. 1800 - c. 1870', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244906