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

Object number: NG-MC-320

Polychromed fully planked wooden half bracket model of the starboard side of a three-masted ship, mounted on a rectangular wooden backboard painted white with a stand.

The side of the ship is fully planked on top of frame moulds and is painted black, with a small white band running along the full length of the gun deck. Fifteen fully detailed gun ports with half port-lids are situated on one continuous deck. Twenty-eight square port lights are painted on the lower deck. The sheer rises slightly towards both ends. One wale and a sheer rail are indicated. The model has three channels with deadeyes. Amidships there is an entrance in the bulwark. The bow features a fully detailed beakhead with a carved figurehead, a cathead, a brass hawsehole and an anchor lining abaft the second gun port. The figurehead depicts a running angel blowing a trumpet while holding a wreath in her left hand, painted white. The elliptic stern has a single-storey quarter gallery. The decoration at the stern is restrained: the raised woodwork is painted white and a white star is adjacent to the row of stern windows. The lower finishing of the quarter gallery is a floral scroll. A long and straight stern davit is located immediately above the gallery. Below the stern a straight, square-headed rudder with a preventer chain is indicated. The hull is S-bottomed and painted a metallic copper colour below the waterline; the waterline itself is painted white. The position of three masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form. The decks (main deck, forecastle and quarterdeck) are individually planked and detailed with a steering wheel, knights, pumps, capstans, hatches, a riding bitt and several steps.

This model was transferred to the Navy Model Room on 8 August 1850.¹¹HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, Exh. 8/8/1850 N9, 16/8/1850 N59. It represents the 44-gun frigate Sambre, 46.21 metres long, built by Pieter Schuijt Juniorsz (1797-1885) in Amsterdam from 1821 to 1825.²²J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 320. The frigate was reduced (‘razeed’) to a 28-gun 30-pounder frigate in 1828 and subsequently renamed Algiers before being decommissioned in 1853.³³A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, pp. 8, 13. The inscription on the left refers to a letter in the archive of the Department of the Navy.⁴⁴HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, Exh. 13/11/1839 N57.

Scale (on model) 1:50.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 320; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, pp. 8, 13

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Amsterdam, Half Model of a 28-Gun Frigate, Amsterdam, 1839', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20053634