anonymous

Half Model of a 20-Gun Sloop of War

? Flushing, c. 1836

Inscriptions

  • inscription, top centre, on an oval label:AMPHITRITE / KORVET a 20 st
  • inscription, bottom right, on a piece of paper, in ink:Voornaamste afmetingen. / [followed by measurements and armament]
  • label, bottom right:346 former inventory label
  • scale, bottom right: brass scale in inches

Provenance

...; Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, 1837;1HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, Exh. 30/5/1837 N36. transferred to the museum, 1883

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-346

Entry

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 over frame moulds and painted black with a white band running along the full length of the main gun deck. Twelve recessed gun ports are situated on one continuous deck. The forecastle and poop have square hances. The sheer is flat. One wale and a sheer rail are indicated. The bow features a fully detailed beakhead with a carved female bust on top of a wreathed scroll as a billethead and a cathead decorated with a lion’s head, both painted gold. The elliptical stern has a taffrail and a quarter gallery decorated with carvings. Below the stern a round-headed rudder (Soetermeer’s version) is indicated. The hull is sharply S-bottomed and painted a metallic copper colour below the waterline. The position of three masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.

The 32-gun sloop of war Amphitrite, 39 metres long, was built by Cornelis Soetermeer (1782-1842) in Flushing from 1827 to 1830.2J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 346. It was reduced to a 20-gun sloop of war in 1836, decommissioned in Curaçao in 1851 and broken up the year after.3A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 15. This model shows Amphitrite after the vessel had been reduced to a 20-gun sloop. It was added to the Navy Model Room in 1837.4HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, Exh. 30/5/1837 N36.

Scale (on model) 1:40.

Literature

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 346; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 15

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 20-Gun Sloop of War, Flushing, c. 1836', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244157

(accessed 16 May 2025 06:32:46).

Footnotes

  • 1HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, Exh. 30/5/1837 N36.
  • 2J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 346.
  • 3A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 15.
  • 4HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, Exh. 30/5/1837 N36.