...; transferred from the Rijkswerf (Navy dockyard) Rotterdam to the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, 1819;¹¹HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, Exh. 19/10/1819 N22. transferred to the museum, 1883.

Object number: NG-MC-65

Two bronze drill shafts, one finished, the other in unfinished state. The upper part resembles an ordinary auger, with the handle omitted. The finished specimen has a small iron chisel and a plane; the chisel cuts a circle, which is then removed by the plane.

These rabbet planes were used as metal drills to make the holes in nuts for bolts, and also as augers making holes for treenails, which were much used in the new construction method developed by the British naval architect Robert Seppings (1767-1840). They were introduced in the dockyards of the Dutch Navy in 1821.²²J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 65.

These drills were sent to the Navy Model Room in 1819 by the Navy dockyard in Rotterdam as part of a larger collection of objects coming from the United Kingdom.³³HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, Exh. 19/10/1819 N22.

J.C. Rijk, Handleiding tot de kennis van den scheepsbouw, s.l. 1822, p. 146, pl. IV fig. 72; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 65

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Two Rabbet Planes, United Kingdom, c. 1818', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200314897