Three Samples of Lightning Conductors

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

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-601

Three samples of lightning conductors for ships.

All three are copper cables and all are cable-laid. The two thin ones consist of five strands, one has a copper ring at the end. The thick conductor chain consists of three strands of five yarns each and has a parchment label attached to it with Jochem Pietersz Asmus’s signature.

In his catalogue of 1858 Obreen mentions that the three samples are for different charters of ships and are made according to older specifications.¹¹J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 601. It remains unclear whether the samples were made or procured by Jochem Pietersz Asmus (1755-1837). The model of the East Indiaman Vergelijking (NG-MC-658) was rigged with similar lighting conductors.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 601

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'possibly Jochem Pietersz. Asmus, Three Samples of Lightning Conductors, Netherlands, 1795 - 1848', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244416