Rijkswerf Vlissingen

Model of a Skylight

Flushing, 1857

Inscriptions

  • label, on the frame:122 former inventory label

Conservation

  • Ab Hoving, 1994: minor repairs

Provenance

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

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-122

Entry

Construction model of a skylight on a stand.

The upper structure is square with a flat roof and three windows on either side. It can be raised and lowered by turning back the ledges of the coaming on their hinges: the skylight stands with its base on these ledges when raised, or hangs from them with its roof when lowered.

A skylight of this type was tested on the 8-gun screw steamer 4th class Soembing,1J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 122. 43.73 metres long and built in Flushing by Lambertus Katharinus Turk (1811-1873) in 1856. The steamer was broken up in 1872. A skylight of this type can also be seen on model NG-MC-1087.

Literature

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 122

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Vlissingen, Model of a Skylight, Flushing, 1857', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.243933

(accessed 11 August 2025 03:28:40).

Footnotes

  • 1J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 122.