Model of an Anchor

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

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-605

Model of a chain anchor, consisting of a shank with a bent arm with flukes and a wooden anchor stock and a shackle for a ring.

The shank of chain anchors was shorter and heavier than in common anchors to compensate for the weight of the chain. The puddened anchor ring has been replaced by a shackle.¹¹J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 605.

Scale (estimate) 1:10.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 605; J.C. Pilaar, Handleiding tot de kennis van het tuig, de masten, zeilen, enz. van het schip, Amsterdam 1858 (3rd ed. rev. by G.P.J. Mossel), pp. 389-90, fig. 127; A.J. Hoving, Message in a Model: Stories from the Navy Model Room of the Rijksmuseum, Florence, OR 2013, pp. 200-03

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of an Anchor, Netherlands, c. 1850', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244420