Model of a Slide and Carriage for a 30-Pounder Carronade

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

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-749

Model of a slide and carriage for a 30-pounder carronade with traversing crow.

The carriage has a slightly trapezoidal body with brass fittings and rings; the fore end and rear are rounded off. To the rear, a traversing plate and a slot for the elevating screw are indicated, to the front, the lugs and lug bolt, and the pintle comes out of the bottom. The pintle has a flat rectangular head and moves between the longitudinal beams of the slide. The slide is a wooden frame, rounded off at the front, partly sheathed in brass, and with a hole for the fighting bolt. A little way back a brass plate is positioned underneath, with two holes for securing the slide lengthwise against the ship’s side. At the rear, the frame broadens and the back is slightly rounded. The transom has two rounded chocks to reduce friction on deck when training. The tray for the cannon balls,¹¹J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 749. which can be suspended underneath the slide, is missing.

Scale (derived) 1:5.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 749; H. van Goens, Handleiding tot de kennis van de zee-artillerie, Rotterdam 1861-65, pp. 618 ff., pl. XXIV

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Slide and Carriage for a 30-Pounder Carronade, Netherlands, 1848', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20053936