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

Object number: NG-MC-1392

Framed black-and-white photograph, of the steam gunboat Wodan in a canal, seen from starboard with sailing barges in the background.

Wodan, 27.86 metres long, was built by Christie, Nolet & De Kuijper in Delfshaven from 1876 to 1877. It carried one 23 cm gun, two 3.7 cm guns and one 3.7 cm revolving gun. The armament was replaced by a single 12 cm gun in 1907. Wodan was turned into a fuel bunker in 1924.¹¹A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 122.

Another copy of this photograph is in the collection of the Maritiem Museum in Rotterdam.²²Rotterdam, Maritiem Museum, inv. no. F26567.

B.J. Tideman, Memoriaal van de Marine, bevattende opgaven betrekkelijk de afmetingen, constructie, ... van Nederlandsche oorlogsschepen en omtrent enige havens, dokken, sluizen, werven enz., Amsterdam 1876-80, livret I; J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1392; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 122; J.M. Dirkzwager, ‘Stoomkanonneerboot type “Staunch”’, Spiegel Historiael 27 (1992), no. 2, pp. 85-86

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Photograph of a Gunboat, Netherlands, 1876 - 1877', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200316188