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

Object number: NG-MC-307

Polychromed wooden half bracket model of the port side of a three-masted ship, mounted on a rectangular wooden backboard.

The side of the ship is depicted by ribbands attached to frame moulds. The forecastle and quarterdeck are outlined and have square hances. The sheer rises slightly towards both ends. Two wales and a sheer rail are indicated, all three are painted black. The bow features an empty beakhead and two knightheads. The stern has a round tuck and a hollow counter. The model does not have a taffrail or galleries. Below the stern a straight, square-headed rudder is indicated. The hull is slightly S-bottomed and painted white below the waterline. The position of three masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.

The 36-gun frigate Bellona, measuring 124 feet and 3 inches in length, was built by Pieter Glavimans (1755-1820) in Rotterdam in 1785.¹¹J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 307. Bellona was one of the ships captured by the British in Saldanha Bay in 1796.²²J.C.J. de Jonge, Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche zeewezen, 5 vols. and index, Haarlem 1858-62, vol. 5, pp. 236-75.

Scale (derived) approx. 1:48.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 307

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 36-Gun Frigate, Netherlands, c. 1785', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200315762