Half Model of a Paddle Steamer

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1889

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-1889-3

Polychromed wooden ‘bread-and-butter’ style half block model of the starboard side of a two-masted paddle steamer, mounted on a rectangular wooden backboard that has been painted white.

The white-painted side is closed and features a closed paddle box. The deck is closed and flush with the side. One black funnel is positioned on deck. The railcap is painted black. The model has a clipper bow. The stern is elliptical. Below the stern a round-headed rudder with a rounded blade is indicated. The sheer rises forward; one sheer rail is indicated. The hull is round with a flat bottom and painted a metallic copper colour below the waterline. The position of two masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form. Both masts rake considerably.

The wooden paddle steamer Siak, 42 metres long, was built between 1874 and 1877 in Surabaya as one of a series of four paddle steamers for the Dutch Colonial Navy.¹¹A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 368. The other ships in the same class were Anjer, Tagal and Ternate.

Scale unknown.

A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 368

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a Paddle Steamer, Surabaya, c. 1874 - c. 1877', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245238