Object data
wood, brass and glass
height 27 cm × width 27.7 cm × depth 16.9 cm
Rijkswerf Vlissingen
Model of a Ventilating Shaft and Portlight
Flushing, 1849
Inscriptions
- inscription, top centre: LICHT- en LUCHTKOKER / (KORVET ATALANTE) / 1849. / Op 1/4 der ware grootte. Ingezonden in voldoening / van de Resolutie van 21 Sep- / tember 1849 D N 63 door den / Hoofd Ingenieur der Marine / A.[...] Bruyn
- label, on the base: 121 former inventory label
Provenance
...; Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, 1849;1 transferred to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-121
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Construction model of a section of the side of a ship, mounted on a rectangular base.
The side of the model consists of the planking, two frames and the ceiling. Between the frames there is a ventilation shaft with a grating, coming out into the funnel-shaped gun port with portlight. The gun port frame is sheathed with brass. The portlight is round with a frosted convex side, countersunk so as not to protrude beyond the wall of the ship.
This model represents a ventilation shaft with sidelight as seen on the 28-gun sloop of war Atalante, built in Flushing from 1842 to 1849 (renamed Prins Maurits der Nederlanden in 1850, guard ship in Flushing from 1869 onwards, decommissioned in 1905).2
Scale (on model) 1:4.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 121; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, pp. 16, 19
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Vlissingen, Model of a Ventilating Shaft and Portlight, Flushing, 1849', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (ed.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.243932 (accessed 2 March 2021).