Half Model of an 80-Gun Ship of the Line 'Wreeker'

anonymous, c. 1797

Gepolychromeerd mallenmodel (stuurboord) van een driemaster. Geen geschutpoorten, geen dekken aangegeven; het halfdek kan onderscheiden worden door de gillingen. Geen luizenplecht. Gewrongen spiegel, hol wulf, geen hek of zijgalerij; recht roer met vierkante roerkoning. Vrij vlakke zeeg, twee berghouten en één reehout. Rond onderwaterschip. Schaal ca. 1:55 (afgeleid).

  • Artwork typeship model, builder's model, half model
  • Object numberNG-MC-269
  • Dimensionsheight 37 cm x width 126 cm x depth 16.5 cm
  • Physical characteristicswood and paint

anonymous

Half Model of an 80-Gun Ship of the Line

Netherlands, c. 1797

Inscriptions

  • inscription, top centre, on an oval black metal label:HET. / EERSTE ONTWERP / VAN DE WREEKER / 80 st.
  • label, bottom right:269 former inventory label

Provenance

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

Object number: NG-MC-269

Entry

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

The side of the ship is depicted by ribbands attached to frame moulds. The quarterdeck is outlined by ribbands with a square hance. The sheer is almost flat. Two wales and a sheer rail are indicated, all are painted black. The bow features an empty beakhead with two cheeks positioned directly on the beakhead, a beakhead bulkhead, part of a beakhead platform and a long bollard timber. The stern has a round tuck and a hollow counter. The model does not have a taffrail or quarter galleries. It has a straight, square-headed rudder. The hull is round and is painted white below the waterline. The position of three masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.

This model is the first design for the 80-gun ship of the line Wreeker, 195 feet long, built by R. Dorsman in Amsterdam in 1797-98.1J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 270. Wreeker was renamed Koninklijke Hollander in 1806, Kroonprins in 1808, Prince in 1810 and Prins in 1814 and broken up in 1819.2A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 4. According to one source the design for Wreeker was later used for Zoutman.3HNA 4.MST 51.

Scale (derived) approx. 1:55.

Literature

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 269; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 4

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of an 80-Gun Ship of the Line, Netherlands, c. 1797', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20053585

(accessed 12 December 2025 10:15:49).

Footnotes

  • 1J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 270.
  • 2A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 4.
  • 3HNA 4.MST 51.