Model of a Longboat

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

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-1889-60

Polychromed rigged frame model mounted on a stand.

Carvel built double-banked longboat with a round bottom and a square-ended stern. It has a small foredeck, six thwarts with five stretchers and an open cockpit with side benches. The stem has a sheave. The model has a basic rudder with a brass tiller that is bent to go around the mizzen mast. The rigging consists of a mainmast with a split lugsail, and a mizzen mast with jigger boom and a small triangular jigger. The oars are stowed in forked posts. The model has two brass supports for an awning and a boat hook.

In 1865 the designs of launches and lifeboats were revised.¹¹HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, inv. no. 4009 & Exh. 9/2/1865 N35. This model represents the longboat type A4.

Scale (derived) 1:10.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, p. 91 93; B.J. Tideman, Memoriaal van de Marine, bevattende opgaven betrekkelijk de afmetingen, constructie, ... van Nederlandsche oorlogsschepen en omtrent enige havens, dokken, sluizen, werven enz., Amsterdam 1876-80, 2de afd., pp. 139-41, pl. 18, fig. 4, pls. 27, 29

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Longboat, Netherlands, c. 1880', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245298