Half Model of a 32-Gun Frigate

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

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-316

Polychromed wooden half bracket model of the starboard side of a three-masted ship, mounted on a rectangular wooden backboard painted a dark grey.

The side of the ship is depicted by ribbands on frame moulds. The side above the wale is planked. Thirteen recessed, black gun ports are situated on the upper deck, plus one pierced gun port on the counter. Ten oar ports or scuppers and three larger ballast ports are situated on the lower deck. The sheer rises slightly towards both ends. Two wales and the sheer rail are indicated, all are painted black. The bow features an empty beakhead, two cheeks that are indicated directly on the beakhead and end in a decorative scroll, and a black bollard timber. The stern has a round tuck and a hollow counter. The taffrail is closed, but shows no further details. The model does not have quarter galleries. Below the stern a straight, square-headed rudder with an oval-shaped helm port is indicated. The hull is S-bottomed and painted white below the waterline. The position of three masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.

A remarkable feature is the relatively large number of frame moulds used.

The Minerva was built in Flushing in 1804-05 and sold out of service in 1835. The 32-gun frigate Diana, 145 feet long,¹¹J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 316. was built by Pieter Glavimans Jansz (1768-1850) in Rotterdam in 1804. Diana was renamed Kenau Hasselaar in 1807 and took part as such in the bombardment of Algiers in 1816. In 1828 the frigate was declared unfit and was finally broken up in 1841.²²A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, pp. 10-11.

Scale unknown.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 316; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, pp. 10-11

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 32-Gun Frigate, Netherlands, c. 1804', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20053629