Model of a Jolly Boat

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

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-524

Wooden frame model of a jolly boat, mounted on a stand.

Clinker-built, single-banked boat with a shallow S-bottom, an almost flat sheer and a square stern (pointed with a transom). The model has a small foredeck, four thwarts with stretchers and an open cockpit with side benches and a back bench. The stem is coppered. At the stern a basic rudder is indicated, with a brass hand tiller that is bent upwards.

The model represents a jolly boat built according to the regulations of the Dutch Navy of 1819.¹¹J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 524.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 524

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Rotterdam, Model of a Jolly Boat, Rotterdam, c. 1819', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244337