Model of the Double Dry Dock at Hellevoetsluis

...; donated by Anthonie Roepel to the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, June 1842;¹¹HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, Exh. 24/6/1842 N30. transferred to the museum, 1883

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-7

Wooden model of two consecutive dry docks, with the building for the steam pumps next to the first dock, mounted on a rectangular wooden base.

The entrance has six rabbets for the open-frame model of the double-keeled caisson. The second dock is closed with lock gates. Part of the roofing of the pump house is removable. The entire dock and all the buildings have pile foundations.

The dry dock at Hellevoetsluis was built by Jan Blanken Jansz (1755-1838) between 1798 and 1802 and equipped with a Boulton & Watt steam engine. The construction of this model was ordered by Blanken and it was donated to the Navy Model Room by Dockyard Superintendent Antonie Roepel in 1842, who had received the model from his friend Blanken as a present in 1837.²²HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, Exh. 24/6/1842 N30.

A model of the pumping house is in the collection of the Maritiem Museum Rotterdam.³³Rotterdam, Maritiem Museum, inv. no. M928, see Schatkamer der scheepvaart, exh. cat. Rotterdam (Maritiem Museum ‘Prins Hendrik’) 1974, no. 81; L. Akveld, Magnifiek maritiem, Amsterdam 1992, pp. 66-67. Two drawings in the collection of the Rijksmuseum show this dock’s pump house (NG-996) and how a ship is docked here respectively (NG-997).

Scale (derived) 1:50.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 7; R.M. Haubourdin et al., De physique existentie dezes lands. Jan Blanken, inspecteur-generaal van de waterstaat (1755-1838), exh. cat. Amsterdam (Rijksmuseum) 1987, pp. 164-87, no. 60; H. Stevens (ed.), The Art of Technology: The Navy Model Collection in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam/Wormer 1995, pp. 34-37; A.J. Hoving, Message in a Model: Stories from the Navy Model Room of the Rijksmuseum, Florence, OR 2013, pp. 124-27; H. van der Biezen, ‘Hellevoetsluis’, Scheepshistorie 15 (2013), pp. 32-47

J. van der Vliet, 2016, ''s Lands Werf Hellevoetsluis, Model of the Double Dry Dock at Hellevoetsluis, Hellevoetsluis, c. 1805', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.242732