Half Model of a 20-Gun Hulk

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

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-333

Polychromed wooden half block model of the starboard side of a flat-bottomed ship, mounted on a rectangular wooden backboard.

The side of the ship is carved from a solid block of wood and is painted brown. The deck is flush. Twelve recessed black gun ports are situated on one continuous deck. Oar ports or scuppers are placed next to each gun port, except for the foremost and aftermost. The sheer rises towards both ends. One wale and a sheer rail are indicated, the former is painted black. The stern is round. The model has a straight, broad rudder with a large scroll on the head. The hull has a flat bottom and is painted white below the waterline. The model shows no masts or bowsprit.

In his catalogue of 1858 Obreen calls this model a design for a 20-gun hulk,¹¹J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 333. but no further historical information could be found to support this.

Scale unknown.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 333

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 20-Gun Hulk, Netherlands, c. 1700 - c. 1800', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244143