Model of a 12-Pounder Carronade on a Carriage

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

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-766

Model of a carronade on a carriage.

The barrel is 20 cm long and has a 17 mm calibre. Written inscriptions are engraved on the barrel, along with crossed anchors and palm branches. It has sights at the first and second reinforcements and at the muzzle; it has a breech ring and an elevating screw going through the button. The carriage consists of an upper part sliding on a lower part fitted with trucks. The upper part, tapering in plan towards the front, consists of two cheeks with two steps, connected by a transom, the stool bed and the lug bolt. The lower part is higher at the rear and consists of two cheeks, connected by the axletrees and a lower stool bed. Both cheeks have a rim, around which a brace reaches the upper part; the upper part, when recoiling, slides upwards. The model has double wooden trucks and the fore trucks are larger than the hind trucks.

The barrel belongs to a series with the same type of inscription. The monogram on the barrel refers to the Admiralty of Rotterdam (Maze), which, however, no longer existed in 1800.

Scale (on model) 1:6.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 766; W.G.M.H. Canisius, ‘De ontwikkeling van scheepsgeschut bij de Nederlandse marine in 1780-1880’, Erfgoed van Industrie en Techniek 2 (1993), no. 2, pp. 43-62, no. 3, pp. 80-87, p. 49

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a 12-Pounder Carronade on a Carriage, Rotterdam, 1800', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20053949