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Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde

Half Model of a Screw Steamer

Flushing, 1880

Object data

wood and paint

height 22.5 cm × width 102 cm × depth 8.5 cm

Inscriptions

  • inscription, bottom centre, in gold letters: Zr. Ms. STOOMER, VALK. 1/48 1880.
  • inscription, bottom right, in gold letters: KON: MAATSCHIJ / de Schelde / VLISSINGEN.
  • label, bottom right: 1428 former inventory label

Provenance

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

Object number: NG-MC-1428

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

Polychromed wooden half block model of the starboard side of a two-masted screw steamer, mounted on a rectangular wooden backboard with rounded corners that has been painted black.

The deck has three raised sections: the forecastle, a raised middle section with a funnel and the poop. The vertical stem is decorated with a gold-painted falcon as its figurehead. The elliptical stern is decorated with gold-painted foliage and bears the coat of arms of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Below the stern an empty aperture for a screw propeller and its lifting frame are indicated, as well as a round-headed rudder with a rounded blade. The sheer rises towards both ends. The hull is round with a flat bottom and is painted a metallic copper colour. The position of two masts and the bowsprit are shown in a truncated form. The masts and funnel are considerably raked.

The 2-gun screw steamer Valk was built in 1880 at the Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde in Flushing. Valk was built for the Dutch Colonial Navy in the East Indies. The vessel took part in the Aceh expedition from 1884 to 1885 and was decommissioned in 1897.1

Scale (on model) 1:48.

Literature

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1428; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 371

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde, Half Model of a Screw Steamer, Flushing, 1880', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245232

(accessed 26 April 2024 21:42:09).

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