Model of an 18-cm Gun on a Pivot and Slide

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

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-1246

Very detailed model of an 18-cm gun on a slide and pivot, on part of a ship’s deck.

The iron barrel is a reinforced Armstrong-rifled muzzle-loader with three grooves. It has sights on the breech. The carriage and slide are made of iron and brass. The upper carriage has an elevating mechanism with a toothed segment and toothed wheels on either side. The slide has a braking mechanism composed of five metal rails, in between which the teeth of the upper carriage run. The rails can be compressed by means of a handle on the outside of the upper carriage. Tackles and breeching are missing. The slide is placed on a pivot on the deck of a ship, behind a gun port, with a fighting bolt in the gun port; the trucks at the corners of the slide are placed radially to the bolt. A rammer, on which a shell has been screwed, has been added to the model.

The model, presented to the Navy Model Room by W. de Fremery, Head of Artillery of the Navy, in 1869, represents the gun position of the 18-cm guns on the screw steamer Zilveren Kruis, which were not placed in turrets.¹¹HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, inv. no. 4019.

Scale (derived) 1:10.

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1246; W.G.M.H. Canisius, ‘De ontwikkeling van scheepsgeschut bij de Nederlandse marine in 1780-1880’, Erfgoed van Industrie en Techniek 2 (1993), no. 2, pp. 43-62, no. 3, pp. 80-87, p. 83

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous or anonymous, Model of an 18-cm Gun on a Pivot and Slide, , c. 1868 - c. 1869', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245057