Object data
wood, brass and paint
height 23.5 cm × width 143 cm × depth 13.5 cm
Rijkswerf Amsterdam (attributed to)
Half Model of a Screw Steamer
Amsterdam, 1857
Inscriptions
- label, bottom right: 495 former inventory label
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-495
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Polychromed wooden half block model of the starboard side of a three-masted screw steamer, mounted on a rectangular wooden backboard, painted white.
The side of the ship that is painted black is planked. No gun ports have been indicated. The bow features a beakhead without any details. Below the elliptical stern an empty aperture for a screw propeller and a round-headed rudder with a rounded blade are indicated. The model has a well for lifting the screw propeller. The sheer is virtually flat. The hull is round and painted red below the waterline. The keel rises from the sternpost to the rudderpost. The position of three raked masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.
Although appearing on the list of objects retained by the Department of the Navy in 1889, the model is in fact in the collection of the Rijksmuseum. The 11- to 16-gun screw steamer 2nd class Leeuwarden, 56 metres long, was built by H.A. van der Speck Obreen in Amsterdam from 1856 to 1858.1 In 1857, even before being launched, it was renamed Vice-Admiraal Koopman. It served both in Guinea and the Dutch East Indies and took part in the Aceh crisis. Vice-Admiraal Koopman was decommissioned in Aceh in 1876 and sold for breaking up in Java the following year.2
Scale (derived) approx. 1:50.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 495; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 64
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'attributed to Rijkswerf Amsterdam, Half Model of a Screw Steamer, Amsterdam, 1857', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244308
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