Half Model of a Screw Steamer

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1889

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-1889-9

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

The deck is closed and flush with the side that has been painted white. The forecastle and poop are raised, amidships a raised deckhouse with one black-painted funnel is indicated. The railcap is painted gold. The model has a clipper bow with a gold-painted figurehead depicting a condor. The stern is elliptical and decorated with gold-painted foliage, the coat of arms of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the name ‘CONDOR’. Below the stern an empty screw aperture and a rudder with rounded blade are indicated. The sheer rises only slightly towards both ends. The hull is round and painted a metallic copper colour below the waterline. The position of two masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form. Both masts rake considerably.

The 2-gun screw steamer Condor, 38.40 metres long, was built for the Dutch Colonial Navy at the yard of the Koninklijke Fabriek van Stoom en Andere Werktuigen in Amsterdam in 1885. Condor served as a transport during the Aceh expedition of 1885.¹¹A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 371.

Scale unknown.

A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 371

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Koninklijke Fabriek voor Stoom- en andere Werktuigen, Half Model of a Screw Steamer, Amsterdam, 1885', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20054281