Half Model of a 3-Gun Schooner

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

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-393

Polychromed wooden half bracket model of the starboard side of a two-masted ship, mounted on a rectangular wooden backboard.

The side of the ship is depicted by ribbands attached to frame moulds. Above the wale the side is planked. A black rail on stanchions is fitted along the entire length of the ship. The sheer rises towards both ends. One wale and a sheer rail are indicated; the wale is painted black. The bow features a knee supporting the bowsprit. The stern has a round tuck, a hollow counter and a taffrail. Below the stern a straight, square-headed rudder is indicated. The hull is S-bottomed and painted white below the waterline. The position of two masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.

The historical sources that document the two ships built according to this design are contradictory. Obreen describes them as 3-gun schooners that were built by Pieter Glavimans Jansz (1768-1850) in Rotterdam in 1800.¹¹J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 393. According to other sources however, the schooner Cachelot of 1800 was built in Amsterdam and carried seven guns, whereas Haai, registered as a 7-gun brig, is the only ship that was built in Rotterdam in 1800. Cachelot was eventually sold out of the service in Medemblik in 1817 and Haai was converted to a careening hulk in 1825 in Medemblik.²²HNA 1.01.47.36 Admiraliteitscolleges, Losse Aanwinsten, inv. no. 17, Genealogie Asmus; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, pp. 22, 32.

Scale unknown.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 393; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, pp. 22, 32

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 3-Gun Schooner, Rotterdam, 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.244206