Model of a Life Buoy

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

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-1389

Wooden model of a life buoy, painted bright red, and two full-scale details, a pad and a lead weight.

The buoy is a semi-circular belt and very thick. On the upper and lower side two round sliding bars are fixed, which can be rotated to close the belt to a full circle. On the outside four pads with handles are fixed, which can be released by means of a bayonet catch. One of these pads, full scale, accompanies the model. It has a handle and a hat-shaped hollow pad with a hole at the flat side, covered inside with leather. The cylindrical lead weight has a hole straight through with a screw pincher for cables or the like.

The operation of this buoy is unclear; no historical information concerning this model has been found.

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1389

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Life Buoy, Netherlands, 1870 - 1885', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245193