Tide Table for the Dutch West Coast

Inscriptions

inscription, top centre:GETIJ-ROOS / Loop der getijen op de Westkust van Nederland. / GEBRUIK-AANWIJZING. / [handling instructions]
inscription, bottom right:Inv: G. Lambert / Luit:ter zee 1e kle
inscription, bottom left:Lith: v. S. Lankhout / ’s Gravenhage

Provenance

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

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-1362

Entry

Rotating tide table (volvelle), indicating the tidal streams of the west coast of the Netherlands.

The outer fixed circle indicates the time. The inner turning circle or indicator is divided into twelve sections for the hours, and four concentric circles for the coastal stretches of (respectively) Holland, Goeree and Maas, Brouwershaven and Walcheren. The tidal streams are obtained by first calculating high tide at Texel, then pointing the arrow of the indicator to the obtained time, after which the directions of the tidal streams and the high and low tides for the other places can be read.

Literature

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1362

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Samuel Lankhout, Tide Table for the Dutch West Coast, The Hague, 1870', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245167

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