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

Object number: NG-MC-16

Construction model of the landward side of a covered slip, mounted on a wooden base.

The building has a mansard roof with skylights, rounded at the end in five sections; the sides of the building are open. The roofing has been left off on one side. The floor has the declivity of a slipway.

Two models of covered slips were made in 1822, one according to the plans of Cornelis Jan Glavimans (1795-1857), the other to those of Cornelis Soetermeer (1782-1842). They were discussed at the Department of the Navy with reference to the introduction of the construction methods developed by the British naval architect Robert Seppings (1767-1840) and other changes implemented at Dutch shipyards.¹¹HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, Exh. 27/5/1822 N7. Since many of the models used to illustrate this discussion were added to the Navy Model Room, it is probable that this model is one of them.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 16; J.G. Coad, The Royal Dockyards 1690-1850: Architecture and Engineering Works of the Sailing Navy, Brookfield 1989, pp. 110 ff.; A.A. Lemmers, Techniek op schaal. Modellen en het technologiebeleid van de Marine 1725-1885, Amsterdam 1996, pp. 159

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Rotterdam or Rijkswerf Amsterdam or Rijkswerf Vlissingen, Model of Part of a Covered Slip, Rotterdam, c. 1822', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20053178