Object data
iron, copper, rope and paint
height 13 cm × width 20.3 cm × depth 7 cm
anonymous
Gunlock (Percussion) for a Carronade
? Netherlands, c. 1835
Inscriptions
- label, on the lock: 704 former inventory label
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-704
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Gunlock (percussion), painted black, to be mounted over the vent patch.
The hammer, mounted on the right-hand side, is cranked, in order to come down in the middle of a hole, left open for the vent. The lanyard is original and fastened halfway up the hammer, whence it runs through a small sheave and then back underneath the hammer through a ring.
This lock is a prototype that was not accepted by the Dutch Navy.1
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 704
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Gunlock (Percussion) for a Carronade, Netherlands, c. 1835', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244519
(accessed 8 May 2024 14:53:13).