Model of the Outer Sill of the Lock at Flushing

...; Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, August 1850;¹¹HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, Exh. 19/8/1850 N6. transferred to the museum, 1883

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-9

Architectural wooden model of the sill of the lock in Flushing, showing the floor according to the improvements and reinforcements that were made from 1847 to 1848.²²J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 9.

All the flagstones are represented by separate and numbered pieces of wood that can be removed piece by piece like a jigsaw puzzle. The model also shows some details of the pile foundations.

This model was sent to the Department of the Navy in 1850.³³HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, Exh. 9/8/1850 N83, 19/8/1850 N6. The Flushing lock to the basin was rebuilt by the French in 1810, following its destruction by the British in 1809. Decay necessitated repairs, which were performed by J.J. and C.J. van Uye from Middelburg in 1847 and 1848.

Scale (on model) 1:50.

A.E. Tromp, ‘Aanleg en gemaakte veranderingen aan het dok der Marine te Vlissingen en de daar voor liggende grote zeesluis, met vermelding van belangrijke bijzonderheden der constructie en andere’, Verhandelingen en berigten betrekkelijk het zeewezen (1851), pp. 531-78, 791-842; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 9; G.P.J. Mossel, Handleiding tot de kennis van het schip, Amsterdam 1859, pp. 421-22; H.G. van Grol, De geschiedenis der oude havens van Vlissingen, alsmede de invloed van Oranje op hare verdere ontwikkeling, Flushing 1931

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Vlissingen, Model of the Outer Sill of the Lock at Flushing, Flushing, 1847 - 1848', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.242734