Object data
iron and bronze
height 17 cm × width 7 cm × depth 2.7 cm × height 13 cm × width 6 cm × depth 1.2 cm × length 19 cm × diameter 2.9 cm × length 16 cm × diameter 2.9 cm
anonymous
Four Fuse Extractors
Netherlands, Netherlands, 1857
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1078
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Two pairs of fuse extractors, to be used with wooden time fuses in round shells.
The first pair, made of iron, operates in the same way: they consist of a pair of tongs to grip the fuse, which is then extracted by means of a screw. In the event of the fuse breaking, it can still be removed by turning a kind of corkscrew into it and then pulling it out: the second pair of fuse extractors, made of bronze, is the latter type, each one being a simple conical screw.
Artillery engineer La Fors developed these fuse extractors together with fuse inserters for round shells in 1857.1 They were extensively tested on board Wassenaer and found superior to the kind used by the Dutch Army. La Fors’ fuse extractors became part of the standard equipment of the Navy in 1859.2
Literature
H. van Goens, Handleiding tot de kennis van de zee-artillerie, Rotterdam 1861-65, p. 187, pl. III, figs. 15-16; J.H. Haakman, Handboek over de zee-artillerie voor konstabels en matrozen-kanonniers, 4 vols., Nieuwediep, 1871-72, vol. 1, pp. 127-28, 184; H. Tutein Nolthenius, Artillerie cursus 1878/1879, s.l. 1878-79, manuscript in KIM PTV 9 (1-2); J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1078
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Four Fuse Extractors, Netherlands, 1857', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244893
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