Half Model of a Screw Steamer

Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij Fijenoord, 1878

Stapelmodel (stuurboord) van een driemast schroefstoomschip. Gesloten dek met achter een kleine bovencampanje; midscheeps zijn kooiverschansingen aangegeven. Klippersteven; elliptisch hek, schroefraam en roer met afgerond roerblad. De schoorsteen ontbreekt. De zeeg loopt op naar beide uiteinden, rondspant. Schaal 1:40 (afgeleid).

  • Artwork typeship model, builder's model, half model
  • Object numberNG-MC-1406
  • Dimensionsheight 35.5 cm x width 181 cm x depth 14.5 cm
  • Physical characteristicswood and brass

Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij Fijenoord

Half Model of a Screw Steamer

Rotterdam, 1878

Inscriptions

  • inscription, bottom centre, on a rectangular brass label:Z.M. Schroefstoomschip der 4de Klasse / St Eustasius. / Fijenoord. 1878. / Schaal 1/40.
  • label, bottom right:1406 former inventory label

Conservation

  • Ab Hoving, juli 2009: masts added; retouched

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-1406

Entry

Wooden ‘bread-and-butter’ style half block model of the starboard side of a three-masted screw steamer, mounted on a framed rectangular wooden backboard with rounded corners.

The deck is closed and has a raised poop deck aft and a funnel amidships. Hammock netting is suggested in three places on the side. The model features a clipper bow and an elliptical stern. Below the stern an empty aperture for a screw propeller and a rudder with a rounded blade are indicated. The sheer rises towards both ends. The hull is round. The position of three masts and the bowsprit are shown in a truncated form. Masts and funnel are raked.

The 4-gun screw steamer Sint Eustasius, 45 metres long, was built at the yard of the Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij Fijenoord in Rotterdam from 1877 to 1878. Sint Eustasius was composite built and the first Navy vessel to be fitted with compound steam engines. Destined for service in the Dutch East Indies, it was transferred to the Dutch East Indian Military Navy and renamed Bali. The vessel took part in the Lombok expedition in 1894 and was decommissioned in 1906.1A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 78.

Scale (on model) 1:40.

Literature

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1406; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 78

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij Fijenoord, Half Model of a Screw Steamer, Rotterdam, 1878', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20054265

(accessed 9 December 2025 08:12:57).

Footnotes

  • 1A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 78.