Model of an Anchor

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

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-609

Wooden model of Hawkins’ patent anchor.

The usual anchor stock is replaced by a short bent stock set perpendicular to the arms and the flukes are set in the same plane as the arms. The arms and stock turn in the forked end of the shank, the stock forces the flukes into the ground. With a rope attached to a shackle at the crown, the stock can be set in the right position and the anchor can be raised. The top of the shank has a shackle.

R.F. Hawkins’ anchor was patented¹¹British Patent 1821, no. 4589. by William Justin Dealy in the United Kingdom in 1821 and in the Netherlands in 1823,²²HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, Exh. 6/8/1823 N31. but it nevertheless became known as the Hawkins’ patent anchor in the Dutch Navy. It was tested on the sloop of war Pallas under the command of Julius Constantijn Rijk (1787-1854) in 1825.³³HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, Exh. 21/1/1825 N30; J.C. Rijk, Generaal Rapport Z.M. Pallas, s.l. 1825, manuscript with 6 appendices in HSM, inv. no. NII (03144). It did not hold well in mud.⁴⁴J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 608.

Scale (estimate) 1:10.

British Patent 1821, no. 4589; Treatise on the Patent Anchor Invented by R.F. Hawkins, s.l. (c. 1823); J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 609; J.C. Pilaar, Handleiding tot de kennis van het tuig, de masten, zeilen, enz. van het schip, Amsterdam 1858 (3rd ed. rev. by G.P.J. Mossel), p. 392, fig. 131; G. Doorman, Het Nederlandsch octrooiwezen en de techniek der 19de eeuw, The Hague 1947, p. 131, no. 110; A.A. Lemmers, Techniek op schaal. Modellen en het technologiebeleid van de Marine 1725-1885, Amsterdam 1996, p. 201; A.J. Hoving, Message in a Model: Stories from the Navy Model Room of the Rijksmuseum, Florence, OR 2013, pp. 200-03

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of an Anchor, Netherlands, 1821', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244424