Model of a 44-Gun Frigate

...; Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, 1842;¹¹HNA 2.12.01. Min. Marine, Exh. 30/3/1842 N13. transferred to the museum, 1883

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-665

Rigged wooden waterline block model of a three-masted ship with furled sails.

The model has twenty-eight guns on the gun deck and sixteen carronades on the upper deck. The upper deck has a grating deck. The beakhead has four seats of ease, the figurehead is missing. The elliptical stern has single-storey quarter galleries. The model has a straight, square-headed rudder, with a steering wheel fitted before the mizzen on the upper deck. The sheer is flat, the model has one wale and a sheer rail. The model is fitted with two anchors, four halliard-tubs, one life buoy, two davits, a deckhouse, seven pieces of spare timber, a large number of round shot and hammock nettings, three covered launches and one open launch with a slide for a gun, a fish davit and one oar. All the ironwork is executed in detail. The model has a very detailed three-masted rig with furled sails. All the masts have trysail masts.

This model of a 44-gun frigate was ordered in 1836 together with a model of a ship’s galley for that frigate (NG-MC-575).²²HNA 2.12.01. Min. Marine, Exh. 31/5/1836 N50. All the makers were promoted or rewarded while the assistants were mentioned for their prominent role in the realisation of the model.³³HNA 2.12.01. Min. Marine, Exh. 30/3/1842 N13. This model differs in some details from another model of IJssel in the collection (NG-MC-30). IJssel, 44 guns and 46.21 metres long, was launched in Rotterdam in 1840. It was renamed Prins Frederik der Nederlanden in 1844, converted to a floating battery in 1860 and again renamed Salamander before being decommissioned in 1893 and broken up in 1903.⁴⁴A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 11.

Scale (according to Obreen)⁵⁵J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 665. 1:40.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 665; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 11; F.J.G. van Emden and W. Brandt, Kleurig memoriaal van de Hollanders op Oud-Java, Amsterdam 1964, p. 152; A. van Dijk, Voor Pampus. De ontwikkeling van de scheepsbouw bij de Koninklijke Marine omstreeks 1860, Amsterdam/The Hague 1987 (Bijdragen tot de Nederlandse Marinegeschiedenis, vol. 4), p. 76; A.J. Hoving, Message in a Model: Stories from the Navy Model Room of the Rijksmuseum, Florence, OR 2013, pp. 190-93

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Willem van Tongerloo and Adrianus Kollaard, Model of a 44-Gun Frigate, Rijkswerf (Hellevoetsluis), 1836 - 1842', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244481