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

Object number: NG-MC-339

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

The side of the ship is depicted by ribbands attached to frame moulds. Fourteen gun ports are indicated by white frames situated on the upper deck and quarterdeck, some are now damaged or missing. Only the quarterdeck is outlined and has a square hance. The sheer rises towards both ends. One wale and a sheer rail are indicated, both are painted black. The bow features an empty beakhead with two cheeks positioned directly on the beakhead. The stern has a round tuck and a hollow counter. The model does not have a taffrail or galleries. Under the stern a straight, square-headed rudder and a keel with a skeg are indicated. The hull is S-bottomed and painted white below the waterline. The position of three masts and the bowsprit is shown in a truncated form.

The 28-gun sloop of war Komeet, 130 feet long, was built by Pieter Glavimans Jansz (1768-1850) in Rotterdam from 1817 to 1818.¹¹J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 339. The sloop was decommissioned in 1836.²²A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 18.

Scale (derived) approx. 1:48.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 339; Catalogus Rijksmuseum Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum, coll. cat. Amsterdam 1928, p. 85, fig. 41; A.J. Vermeulen, De schepen van de Koninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1814-1962, The Hague 1962, p. 18

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Half Model of a 28-Gun Sloop of War, Rotterdam, c. 1819', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20053652